Alan Pardew’s charges then struck the victor with nine minutes to go when Scott Dann, who moments earlier had headed away a risky Jordon Ibe cross, nodded a corner against Mignolet and reacted quickest to nod in the rebound.
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“I felt a niggle before the Liverpool game but hopefully it is not too bad, and hopefully I am back playing as soon as I can”, he said.
“We have to learn that we decide how strong we are, we decide how good we are, we decide how awake we are, we decide how exhausted we are – nobody else”.
Jurgen Klopp lost his first match as Liverpool manager on Sunday, when Crystal Palace inflicted a 2-1 defeat on the home side at Anfield, but the Reds’ problems were compounded as Sakho picked up a knee injury during the encounter. “Twelve minutes to go (including injury time), and I saw many people leaving the stadium”, he said. We have to learn that we decide. Between 82 and 94 minutes, you can make eight goals if you want.
Many eagles fans travelled on mass to Anfield and the din was superb even if Pardew’s touchline with newly appointed Jurgen Klopp lending itself very nicely to festive Pantomime.
“But we are responsible that nobody can leave the stadium a minute before the last whistle because everything can happen”.
Liverpool are set to find out the full extent of Mamadou Sakho’s injury after the player underwent a scan on Monday.
“He asks for us to play with as much freedom as possible when we have the ball, but when we lose it we are asked to recover it as quickly as possible”, Coutinho said. “We played alright and we created chances to get the goals, but it just didn’t come”, he told the club’s official website.
Nonetheless, the Reds showed positive signs of improving on Sunday despite dropping points at Anfield; moreover, Philippe Coutinho, who scored only three goals in seventeen games under Brendan Rodgers, had now scored the same amount of goals for Liverpool in just five games.
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‘I said to the players afterwards that the problem with this team is it doesn’t trust how good it can be, ‘ he added. “I’d prefer to lose 4-1 and keep him in the team”. I watched him in his under-21 appearance on Tuesday and was encouraged by his performance then and on yesterday’s viewing he seems to fit our system a lot better than Dwight Gayle & Campbell – he is a physical presence and that is arguably what has beenmissing since Glenn Murray’s departure.
