Fuchs thought that the game would’ve changed, which is exactly what most fans had feared, after Lucas Leiva’s catastrophic mistake to gift Jamie Vardy a goal.
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“We were strong physically, flexible, quick and creative”.
“The history we’ve had of finding players like Mane, I’m talking about a Torres or even a Suarez”, he told LFC TV’s Preview Show (H/T Inside Futbol).
“Today we were good”.
“Maybe it’s not for me to say but I think we’ve got to focus on the methods and the way we’ve got our success and we’ve come a long way and sometimes you have to take a step back and reflect”.
“Leicester are champions, but we know them and how to play against them”.
“They’re so tuned – apart from one player they played with their champions from past year”.
“We were not tuned. We just take it game by game and will try to win them”.
With the match at 2-0 Liverpool looked dominant at a newly revamped Anfield and Leicester were floundering.
In truth, the pre-match parade of Anfield old boys including Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Ian St John and Terry McDermott had more stardust in their bootlaces than Jurgen Klopp’s current band of brothers.
‘I have to say, because I don’t know how else I can say this, please don’t sing my name before the game is decided!’ said Klopp after the win.
Jurgen Klopp and his team have so far not been considered favorites in the league and many argue they don’t have the quality to be contenders. I don’t play. It was the same at Arsenal. It is nice but not necessary.
The Italian suggested that the loss of these key players could have had an impact on his side’s performance.
“It was good – the whole 98 minutes was a good performance in a wonderful atmosphere”.
“That is an easy deal”.
Klopp revealed he had brought his players to the redeveloped stadium on Thursday for a training session to help them acclimatise to their new surroundings.
Ranieri added: “Liverpool were better than us”.
“We were waiting for this kind of football”, he said.
The extrovert German was seen remonstrating with home fans at one point in the second half of Saturday’s match as they chanted his name in appreciation of a memorable inauguration of a new main stand which has raised the capacity at Anfield to 55,000. The midfielder, making his first appearance of the season and in an unfamiliar centre-back role due to Dejan Lovren’s eye injury, received a short goal-kick but panicked under pressure from Shinji Okazaki, lost control and stabbed the ball back across the six-yard box where Vardy could barely believe his luck.
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The manager added: “It was hard for us tonight”.
