The Reds shocked City by racing in to a three-goal lead at the Etihad with goals from Philippe Coutinho and Firmino coming after Eliaquim Mangala put through his own net after just nine minutes.
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Barrett also believes teams will start mimicking aspects of Liverpool’s approach when they take on City as the season progresses to try and unsettle them.
“I don’t want to talk about one player”, he said.
Liverpool have taken eight points from Klopp’s first five tricky league games at the helm since succeeding Brendan Rodgers, and Murphy feels the German’s influence has been crucial in revitalising the team.
City’s top striker Sergio Aguero marked his return after seven games out injured with a fine goal to reduce the arrears but Martin Skrtel lashed in a shot nine minutes from time.
Meanwhile, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hopes that his side’s brilliant 4-1 dismantling of former Premier League leaders Manchester City will convince his players that they can surmount any obstacle.
“The Premier League fixtures felt like a fix with us travelling first to tough grounds like Stoke, Arsenal, Spurs, United, Everton, Chelsea and Man City”.
“It’s obviously a brand new challenge for me and a completely different role to what I had at City but I had an unbelievable time at City, played with a lot of good players, won some trophies and I think if I’d stayed at City I’d be enjoying it as well”.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, the centre-back said: “You can see what a difference he has made”.
“It was a complete disaster, the whole team”. Very important for the table – we’re on 20 points now. “I’ve spent time working on the areas I knew I needed to improve, like scoring more, and I still have to push myself but I’ve come a long way”, he told Goal.com. It’s a good day for us.
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Liverpool’s season has been plagued by injuries to key men so it would be devastating to lose a player of Coutinho’s caliber just when it looked like Klopp was getting his squad back together. It is unfortunate but it is football, it is the way things go, and we have got a top-class replacement in.
