“What’s important is how Jurgen Klopp handles Daniel Sturridge; how many games he plays, how many minutes, but more important than anything is his recovery afterwards, immediately afterwards and then the next day”, he said.
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“Strange! I would have had no problems with a game against Everton”. With someone who has had 20 injuries, you can not be treated like a normal player. “It was a good decision [to select him], I have to say”. They missed Graziano Pelle and will have him back against Liverpool. “It doesn’t matter if you didn’t play before, if you were brilliant, you all start from page one and let’s see how we go”.
Swansea City are buoyed by their encouraging performance in last weekend’s narrow 1-0 loss to Liverpool and will go into Saturday’s Premier League clash against high-flying Leicester City without any fear, goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski has said.
“The second half is my responsibility”. It was just the passion of his words that got to us. There were too many big spaces.
Wednesday’s result, which cost Southampton a place in the Capital One Cup semi-finals, came despite them taking the lead in the opening minute.
The Merseyside club have lost just one game in 10 in all competitions since the German took over from Brendan Rodgers in October and Lallana says Klopp’s passion was evident before his first game in charge against Tottenham Hotspur on Oct. 17.
“The way they play is really good football. Stoke will want this final, for sure”.
“It worked a treat again here but the galvanising effect he has had on the club has been stunning – not so much a wind of change but a hurricane of optimism blowing through Anfield”.
Southampton had been bidding to reach the semifinals for the first time since 1986-87, but dreams of a first major final since 2003 will now be put on hold until the FA Cup comes around in January.
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After Dusan Tadic’s shimmying had moved young Liverpool right-back Connor Randall out of the way, Ryan Bertrand curled a cross in from the left and Mane met it with a firm header into the bottom-right corner.
