A few players have rhythm, a few don’t.
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Liverpool are unbeaten at White Hart Lane since 2012 and have sort of emerged as Spurs’ bogey team in recent seasons.
Liverpool midfielder Emre Can is rated doubtful with an ankle problem, while striker Divock Origi will be face a late fitness test after suffering cramp in the Football League Cup win at Burton.
“Daniel Sturridge is a wonderfully skilful player”.
Tottenham were fortunate they found enough to claim a point from a game in which they mostly toiled, while Liverpool had more than enough chances to have garnered all three points before Danny Rose escaped the general congestion to equalise. In the second half we increased our level, our performance. We competed a lot, and you have to do that.
“We always try to find different types of players that can help us and mix with different characteristics”.
Even in the big games last season, Klopp was choosing [Roberto] up front instead of Sturridge’. “It is a good signal”, he said. “I would sign for that to happen again”.
Jurgen Klopp isn’t content with one point as he believes his side deserved all three.
“When we played like this then I think we could have won the game, but it is like it is”.
“This game showed again what we can do, how we can play”, said Klopp.
“It seems a long time since we’ve been there, it was a tough start as well”, Milner said, referring to games against Arsenal, Burnley and Spurs.
Sadio Mane thought he had scored in the second half only for the goal to be, arguably incorrectly, ruled out for offside.
“When you take a point at Tottenham for 99 per cent of teams it would be a good thing but today we saw the game different”, the German lamented in his post-game comments.
Eventually the Reds would score in the 43rd minute but it was less about Spurs’ awful defense (even though it was quite bad) and more about referee Bobby Madley calling a soft foul on Érik Lamela. Loris Karius, Mamadou Sakho, and Lucas Leiva remain on the benches for this week, too, however, we may see Joel Matip’s first Premier League start, and Mane should be good to go, too.
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“For us, everything could have been better, but it could have been worse”.
