“If we can make this a awful place to play, ourselves and the fans, it’s a massive plus to [help] win our games at home”.
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“The problem with pre-season is that the first three weeks we have 15 players who will have been away at the Euros and we also have to see how the squad is changing”, Klopp said.
Chelsea’s point keeps them in ninth, ten points behind Liverpool and a staggering 31 short of Leicester’s tally of 80, and Wednesday’s display summed up the Blues’ season.
Now that Abraham has finally managed to make his senior debut for the London side, he wants to make sure that this one is not his last and he can go on to play more and more matches for the side in the near future.
The Brazil worldwide has also played a part in more Premier League goals than any other Liverpool player this season – scoring 10 times and making seven assists.
Jurgen Klopp has promised the Liverpool squad the toughest pre-season of their careers with triple training sessions when they return after the European Championship.
A spate of resulting injuries were blamed in some quarters on Klopp’s physically demanding pressing game while others suggested he had not given the players time enough to adjust to his new methods. We showed in the first 15 minutes what we’re capable of.
“So we lost patience and when you lose patience in football it’s always hard. When I heard that Liverpool had signed him I thought: ‘how have they done this?’ Now with Roberto you can see the confidence in his work”.
“We have to do a lot to create a base for one year”, he explained.
Can has been making a case for captaincy ever since Jurgen Klopp replaced Brendan Rodgers mid-way through the first half of the season.
“We can make this a fortress and our performances will ultimately do that, and if we’re doing the business on the field [the fans] will get right behind us and create an wonderful atmosphere”.
“We should have killed the game off and we had two or three chances, but even though they equalised, we can be satisfied with the performance of the team”. We didn’t defend really compact and not together and invested a lot and it makes you exhausted.
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He added: “We didn’t defend really compact but we invested a lot and it makes you exhausted”.
