“But therein lies the reality of the Premier League”. “Last year we didn’t have a lot of time to analyse our games and by the time we did it was already the day before the next one”.
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There’s some recognition that Liverpool aren’t in an ideal situation, however, and we sense people won’t be happy if this is still Klopp’s plan of action after the close of the transfer window. The Reds should win – but will they?
For Klopp, these kind of insights come largely from post-match analysis but can be learned only through repetition on the training field.
“He knows some Belgian players over here, he’d spoken to them, they’d all said it was a good place, and he felt he could be a part of it”. If this season is to be one where Liverpool are immersed in the Jürgen Klopp experience, a good start amidst early away games was needed.
Ashley Barnes is certain to miss out for the Clarets because of injury and Jon Flanagan is unavailable because the hosts have him on loan from Liverpool. I saw we broke some records at Arsenal with running but it is more that you are always able to make the right decisions. Sean Dyche’s team have done well to bounce straight back into the top flight against the odds. “I never think this”, said Klopp, who added that he loves clean sheets.
The likeably gruff manager recently complained about how British managers aren’t treated the same as their foreign colleagues.
Since Big Sam is now the England manager, he may well feel his complaints have finally borne fruit. Anything other than a defeat at Turf Moor on Saturday must surely be considered a great result.
Up next for Klopp’s Liverpool is a trip to Turf Moor to face newly-promoted Burnley, who lost 1-0 to Swansea in their league opener.
Indeed, he believes the team is much better equipped to do just that as they look to improve on their eighth-placed finish from the last campaign. Once they got back level in the Arsenal match, there was no stopping them.
The legacy of a minor hip injury meant Sturridge watched from Merseyside as Liverpool, inspired by new signing Sadio Mane, put four past Arsenal last weekend. Liverpool finished eighth last season, but they showed massive improvement since the arrival of Jurgen Klopp and are hopeful of keeping up their momentum after a dominating victory over last season’s runners up.
“A few things were really nice, a few others not too nice”. But the fear among supporters is that there is still more work to do and that it is going to take more time than a year to change this team.
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Klopp went on to explain how Liverpool conceded the first goal, and interestingly enough, Adam Lallana and Arsenal’s impressive first half counter-pressing were the main focus of his analysis.
