With the victory, Liverpool now have 30 points this season, which slots them seventh behind Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United squad on goal difference.
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For their part, Sunderland created a series of half-chances with striker Jermain Defoe causing all kinds of problems for central defender Mamadou Sakho.
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Borini shot just wide at the other end as Sunderland continued to threaten on the break.
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But the visiting side were too quick out of the blocks after the interval, with Benteke – who had also claimed the victor against Leicester City on Boxing Day – collecting Adam Lallana’s flick from Nathaniel Clyne’s pass to find the bottom corner and draw praise from their manager.
The German became more and more animated as Borini cut inside and shot at Mignolet and then Duncan Watmore’s shot was diverted wide.
This is the second time Klopp has been involved in a row with a rival manager since taking over as Liverpool boss in October.
Benteke should have made it 2-0 late on when he was denied by Vito Mannone while Roberto Firmino hit the post for the visitors in the first half.
The Black Cats’ manager thought his team deserved to be on level terms at half-time, but he rued Christian Benteke’s quickfire victor after the interval and the impact it had on his team, who are seven points adrift of safety after a fifth straight loss.
“It’s hard to talk about the middle of January now because we need to be focused on the start of January”. If (Philippe) Coutinho or Lallana had produced a bit of the brilliance we know they can and put it away in the back of our net, then you could hold your hands up and say, “Yeah”.
“Hopefully we can push on and get another win Saturday [against West Ham]”. It was such a lucky, lucky goal for Liverpool.
“We didn’t really produce enough quality”, he said.
“Now the next station is Sunderland, and we have to go there and be concentrated from the first second like we were against Leicester”.
“The injuries are a problem”.
Carragher feels that the team now coached by Jurgen Klopp was inherited from Rodgers and that people should wait until Klopp bring in his own type of players.
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“I thought Wes (Brown) did great today. But I had no arguments with the bench of Sunderland”.
