On Tuesday they travel to Burton from England’s second tier in the League Cup, a competition they have won a record eight times but now enter at an early stage due to their failure to qualify for Europe this season.
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He added: “I wait for the day when the transfer window is closed”.
Read on below for a transcript of the remainder of his media briefing.
“How can I be happy with this?” he said.
Liverpool is already showing inconsistency in the league this season. “Especially the two strikers of Burnley, Vokes and Gray, did really well, physically strong guys”.
They finished with 81% possession for game! We’ve done that against a very good side. “The answer is I don’t know – we will see”.
“It was a day we can all be proud of”. In fact, many would have wondered if Wijnaldum was even playing in the game, he was that fleeting in his performance and barely had anything worth talking about from the 90 minutes at Turf Moor.
“We have to do better”. If you tell me past year we could have played at Burnley like this, not ideal of course, I would be really surprised. Another game, important game.
On the development of Divock Origi. Not that the manager would confirm whether or not he will invest in further players before the end of the window – defenders or otherwise. But on the other side, he has no rhythm in the moment, which you can see.
“Saturday was clear, we could have played another 20 minutes and not scored”. He made another few steps in the right direction and now it’s about gaining the rhythm to find the easy way to play football.
On decision-making in the final third.
Burnley knew their best chance of winning the game was going to come through a quick break and that is exactly what happened. “When we gave away the first goal, they defended for their lives”. [When] we need to shoot, we pass; when we need to cross, we shoot – or whatever. When we were ready for crossing we had no-one in the box and that makes 0.0 per cent sense.
The last time Burnley were in the top flight in 2014-15 they took 11 matches to register their first win.
“We had six or seven times when Phil (Coutinho) was alone to shoot and then we passed and were in the box and lost the ball”. “Marvellous to get turned so quickly and hit it so early”.
“Possession doesn’t win you games”, he said.
‘But it’s the second game.
“We have to stay calm. We put ourselves under pressure”, he said.
On learning from the first two games. These games against lower-table opposition, it was always a different situation. It doesn’t feel good!
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“In the last moments, we were not where we should have been and that was a little bit of the problem, in the box, around the box. But then we have to use our skills in the most decisive area”.
