Daniel Sturridge Could Leave Liverpool — The Sunday Supplement

A deeper starting role this season doesn’t mean more defensive though with the full-backs given a licence to attack and provide the width in Klopp’s side.

Tottenham Hotspur came from behind to get a draw with the Reds, despite being outplayed by their opponents for large periods of the game, especially in the first half. It’s not easy when you play a team who are flawless on the counter attack and you need to take risks.

Do YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? There were three, four times where it was not to our advantage, that’s not too nice.

Milner has spent hours examining the footage from matches in order to ensure his positional play improves.

To make matters even worse for Sturridge, his teammate Divock Origi was introduced into the action ahead of him and the 26-year-old saw just five minutes of action when brought on in the 87th minute. The goal was perfectly played. “After the meeting I told my agent “I’m going to join Spurs”,” the Dutchman said.

His counterpart Jurgen Klopp also felt that there were positives for his team.

“Whose fault is it?”

Mauricio Pochettino and Jurgen Klopp, both permanently stationed on the edge of their respective technical areas, went through the full range of emotions at White Hart Lane, with their players encouraged, applauded and admonished, sometimes all within the space of a couple of minutes.

But the German can nonetheless be heartened by an impressive performance in north London where they had a goal incorrectly ruled out and arguably should have had another penalty on top of the one that James Milner converted to give them a half-time lead. We have to accept the point and that’s not a problem because it’s Tottenham. “I think first half they deserved more but second half we deserved more”. This showed against what we can do, how we can play. “In the end a draw was a fair result”.

“Once we scored the goal we didn’t really get in their faces but it’s a tough place to come”.

“By the second half, we had to take a risk, but we played much better”. We competed a lot, and you have to do that.

James Milner has emerged as Liverpool’s first choice left-back. “To be honest I think I shanked my shot”. Liverpool procured one last sight of goal, but Georginio Wijnaldum’s effort was put out of play by Vorm.

“It seems a long time since we played at Anfield, it has been a tough start”.

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“We always try to find different types of players that can help us and mix with different characteristics”.