“We took our chances and made brilliant goals in the counterattack”, Klopp said.
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“It’s hard because my focus is on us, but it turns to Liverpool now and watching them play in their build up and how they’re playing under the new manager, it looks like they’re buying into it”, he told reporters.
“He just 20 years old and he has a lot of years to work but he will be a very important player, not only for Manchester City but for England”. Bony and Vincent Kompany are also injured.
“But we are prepared. We have a fantastic game to play against Liverpool and we need to get back to winning games, though we are expecting a hard match”. More poor defending allowed Liverpool’s Brazilian duo to quickly increase the lead and Firmino was close to adding two more.
“I have never seen this team play in the way they did tonight”. I think eight players from that team are still there at the moment.
Pellegrini said: “I think that one of the most important things in important games is to have a cold mind, maybe a hot heart, but a cold mind because there are a lot of mistakes”. “If it was the best I’m not so sure because I don’t really compare games”.
Benteke believes the mood among the players has changed after Klopp’s arrival and says he is enjoying working under the German coach.
“I am more than angry, it is unbelievable the performance we had”, said Pellegrini. He’s a good lad. “Good player, good boy, so (let’s be) friendly, shake hands, then it’s football”.
After a couple of surges forward from the men in red, Martin Skrtel finaly got another one for The Reds as rattled the net to make it 4-1 with ten minutes remaining.
He was asked to compare the crop of midfielders he had at Dortmund with the ones he inherited at Liverpool and whether Philippe Coutinho was up there alongside a few of the world-class talent he had managed.
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Pellegrini defended his selection, saying: “I will not explain the starting XI, if I had to choose the same starting XI I would choose the same”. And he was flanked by compatriot Coutinho, who continues to thrive under Klopp. I was the coach of these guys and I saw the rest too, their bad exercises or not-so-good games.
