Asked about what had changed for Liverpool since the dismissal last month of predecessor Brendan Rodgers, Klopp replied: “For us it’s not important what’s different”.
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“All these things come into the reckoning, although no-one’s used the injuries as an excuse because the quality we’ve got throughout the squad means we’ve got a more-than-good-enough squad to deal with them”. However, City’s Eliaquim Mangala and Bacary Sagna looked like they had never played in the same team before.
“You can see that the bench is ever so strong and we can make a lot of changes and still have a good team out there”. Now we are in a better way than two weeks ago and we have to go ahead.
We made these three wonderful goals and then you let them play a little bit, and they’re back in the game because the goal of Aguero was not even a chance.
Liverpool FC’s new manager Jurgen Klopp can definitely point towards the match as his best performance since taking over the club, but it was former Liverpool player Jamie Carragher who was seen praising his former club while analysing the match on Sky’s Monday Night Football alongside Gary Neville. After all, this is what City were doing when they won the league on both recent occasions.
In Sturridge’s place, Brazilian Roberto Firmino, signed from Hoffenheim in the summer for £29m was outstanding in setting up two goals and scoring one for himself.
Liverpool has weathered the grueling stretch of early season road games and now is entering a stretch of the campaign in which it expects to amass lots of points in a short time, given the strength of the opposition.
Saturday was a dismal day for City, as for only the second time they conceded four goals in a competitive game at the Etihad.
The Reds lost for the first time under new coach Jürgen Klopp after a 1-2 upset in the hands of Crystal Palace on November 8. We need him as a target and he came very deep.
And, having then played for his country against England as the national team paid tribute to the victims, taking on the Reds may have been a game too far emotionally and physically.
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At their usual light training session on Sunday the players took the opportunity to dissect their performance in the hope of sparking a reaction similar to that which followed September’s 4-1 defeat at Tottenham. He opened space sometimes but it’s no problem, that’s my work, I try to help, it’s not so easy from outside but when you win 4-1, everything is okay.
