How much success can Firmino and Co find at home to Swansea City on Sunday, when the visitors are likely to set up with 10 men behind the ball and there is less room in the final third? It’s well worth your time. While the comparison may have gone a bit over the top, Liverpool did have chances to add more to their tally as Klopp’s tactic worked perfectly against Manchester City. We wanted to be in their faces. This was the first step in this game. “[On Saturday] we made the first three, I think, had more then, and didn’t take all of them”.
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“They knew that City would spread their full-backs wide and their wingers would go wide too, meaning the two centre-backs and central midfielders could get isolated”. “Two weeks ago we lost the game against Crystal Palace, now we have taken those points back”, he explained. It’s not easy because there is no time to train.
“Today we did it all wrong – the performance, the way we defended, the way we went forward”.
I suppose we’ll just have to wait for more information to come out but I’m sure Liverpool fans around the world are praying Coutinho’s injury is nothing serious. It was better for the training.
He continued: “The character of the team is really good, they want to work. They all look freed up to make mistakes and just play”, Murphy told the Sports Breakfast.
“I said to my players at half time, it looks a little like you’re surprised we’re 3-0 in the lead”. We are Liverpoolpic.twitter.com/1VJ2C8f4Bq – Alberto Moreno Perez (@lfc18alberto) November 21, 2015Buzzing!!! what a performance #YNWApic.twitter.com/1kKTX0mAgp – Nathaniel Clyne (@Nathaniel_Clyne) November 21, 2015It wasn’t a good performance on our part, but I don’t blow wins or losses out of proportion. “Hopefully he can stay fit, because he’s a big player for us”.
Sagna and Mangala have become firm friends since the latter moved to City from Porto previous year. The boys can believe now that they are stronger than many people think.
One of the worst things Klopp’s Reds could do would be to overlook an opponent amid the euphoria of a previous result and drop points they shouldn’t. It was because they could train together, and Benteke was not with us.
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On Saturday the game flowed perfectly into their hands with an early goal, coupled with woeful City defending, allowing them to pick City off on the counter-attack.
