“For the first situation [Mane goal], we showed it to the players at half-time because if you start like this then you need too much luck to come back in the game”.
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Both clubs progressed through to the semi-finals of the League Cup during the week, and after being asked about the possibility of facing the Manchester giants, Klopp laughs off their threat, stating “We have no problem with Manchester City”.
Speaking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, Houghton said: “Liverpool’s away form this season has been quite brilliant”.
Midfielder Adam Lallana has credited manager Juergen Klopp’s charisma for Liverpool’s rise up to sixth place in the Premier League table and an improvement in his own performances.
Jurgen Klopp’s side were 1-0 down inside 41 seconds thanks to Sadio Mane’s header, but Liverpool bounced back thanks to a Daniel Sturridge brace, a Divock Origi hat-trick and substitute Jordan Ibe’s late goal.
For Origi, the match was more about showing his manager that he could add goals to his energetic displays, having demonstrated all the attributes of a top striker in the early season, except the most important quality of all.
The Merseysiders, who have won six of their last seven games in all competitions, play seven times in December and kick-off the hectic schedule away to Southampton in the quarter final of the League Cup on Wednesday.
“And that’s also the reason after Saturday that I said to Steven he will start”.
Davis admitted it was a negative evening for the Saints but implored his teammates to get back to what they know best in order to quickly recover from the magnitude of the defeat.
Klopp’s charges managed to see out the final stages of the half easily and have now joined Manchester City, Stoke City and Everton in the last four. If somebody in this room thinks it’s an easy game against Newcastle [on Sunday]…it’s really hard to go there after two days’ break or whatever and then play again.
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“It is not too often we can talk about this…maybe we will have to wait too long for the next time we can enjoy a football game like this, apart from 20-25 minutes”. “We have Stoke in the semi-final”, he said. We don’t want that they have to take their papers on the pitch.
