Jurgen Klopp’s reign as Liverpool manager started at White Hart Lane last October in a game that ended in a draw – the result may have been the same here but this is much more like the German’s side. Few minutes later, the Tottenham goalkeeper saved another Coutinho shot from close range. It’s a good team, thank God.
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It was another day of frustration for Daniel Sturridge, however, restricted to a three-minute appearance as a substitute as the clock ran down.
“If you want to you can always talk to me about players who didn’t start”. But it is about doing it against teams who aren’t going to play against us.
It will now be a fortnight until Tottenham play again as they go on global break, but Pochettino said he did not expect any exhausted players to come back any more well rested. “They scored the goal and could have won too”.
“Daniel Sturridge is a wonderfully skilful player”.
Mauricio Pochettino opted to leave striker Vincent Janssen on the bench and play Dele Alli behind lone striker Harry Kane, but was forced to introduce the Dutchman after Kyle Walker was forced off after 27 minutes due to illness. We showed we can be good.
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.
“But, of course, we are all human beings and in the analysis afterwards when we saw it again we could not believe how big the opportunities would have been with one more pass, and that was hard to take”, said Klopp.
“It is a bit irrelevant to speak to someone who has played there in the past as the way that this manager plays is very different to a left-back say five years ago”, he admitted.
He looked back to the defeat at Burnley a week ago, calling it “the wrong sign in the wrong moment” after they were “on a good way” following a thrilling win at Arsenal on the opening-weekend.
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“We always try to find different types of players that can help us and mix with different characteristics”. It’s probably a fair result. It’s not easy when you play a team that are flawless on the counter-attack and you need to take risks.
