Souness feels that Sturridge is not Klopp’s type of player and as such the England global has a big job on his hands to break into the starting eleven on a regular basis at Anfield.
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Mane moved to Liverpool in a £30m deal from Premier League rivals Southampton last month after he scored 21 times in two seasons at St Mary’s.
“He’s now made three games”. There’s no big mountain for him, Daniel.
Erik Lamela nodded Eric Dier’s cross into the path of Rose in the 72nd minute and the England left back controlled the ball and slammed it past Simon Mignolet to extend Spurs’ unbeaten start to the season.
“It was great to hear a manager say “look, he was not ideal but we can work on that and make it better” – yet he then pulled the plug on Moreno and played James Milner at left-back against Burnley instead”.
“It’s not easy when you play a team that are ideal on the counter-attack and you need to take risks”.
By comparison, Klopp felt like his ‘keeper only had to make “one good save” on this occasion – although he called it “a brilliant save” to deny Alderweireld – and said Liverpool were “more in the game” overall.
“I’m really happy that we have him”. “I am a Liverpool player and what the manager asks me to do I will do”, Milner said, before explaining that learning the role at Liverpool is unique because of Klopp’s conception of it. “That [in itself] is not a problem, but the problem is I think other people can have success too – it’s not about me”.
Jurgen Klopp had criticised his team’s decision-making in last Saturday’s shock 2-0 loss at Burnley and Philippe Coutinho twice spurned excellent chances to open the scoring in the first half, with Michel Vorm saving well.
“And Hugo is our captain as well”.
It fired the Reds ahead just before the break, before Danny Rose earned a point for Spurs in the second half.
The makeshift Reds full-back said: “I don’t think about it, someone told me about it after the game. It is one of those things”.
“Klopp is a manager who improves his players, partly by boosting their self-esteem, and I thought that was what he was doing when he defended and protected Alberto Moreno following criticism last week”. But he didn’t seem to mind.
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“Roberto Firmino usually plays as a number 10 or at times as a striker so they’re playing a 4-3-3”.
