Jurgen Klopp defended Daniel Sturridge’s decision to walk straight down the tunnel after Liverpool’s defeat at the hands of Swansea in south Wales. Liverpool were having an equal share of the possession but with a lack of energy in their play, they weren’t causing many problems.
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Liverpool struggled against the pace of Andre Ayew.
Just after the half hour, and after a fine double save by Ward, Cork strode forward – Skrtel backed off – and he fired in a curling shot into the far corner.
Klopp had made eight changes from the Liverpool side beaten by Villarreal, starting with an average age of just 23.
Liverpool managed to get themselves back in the match through Christian Benteke, with the Belgian heading in from a corner in the 65th minute, but the hosts responded within two minutes, restoring the two-goal cushion via Andre Ayew again.
It was Swansea’s fourth consecutive home win of the season – their best ever Premier League run and they did it in emphatic style. I hope our fans know how close we are to them.
Swansea secured their Premier League status as a weakened Liverpool side suffered a 3-1 defeat before their European showdown with Villarreal.
It was Benteke’s eighth league goal of the season from 26 matches in the competition, only 12 of which he has started.
Cork, marshalling midfield well, served as an inventive conduit to Swansea’s four unsafe attackers, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Ayew, Wayne Routledge and Jefferson Montero, whose speedy dribbling made him particularly bothersome to Nathaniel Clyne.
“I think Ronny has done a great job there, it looks like they will go on and win the title so that is two titles in a row”.
“But I am only frustrated because we could have played better. Then next Sunday the Premier League!”.
“I am happy we are safe”.
This was Liverpool’s first game on British soil since an inquest ruled on Tuesday that 96 of their supporters were unlawfully killed at Hillsborough in Sheffield 27 years ago.
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“Against the bigger teams we’ve done similar to what we did past year, and maybe one target next season would be to get more points from the teams around us”. Perhaps, if Ings isn’t able to feature in the remaining 3 league games or the Europa League final if they make it to the finals, the pre-season will give him chance to attain full recovery.
