“It is exciting times for everyone”, the England worldwide said. “I don’t believe this great myth that they can’t play”, Rush, scorer of 346 goals for the Reds, said at an event to promote Liverpool Legends’ match against their Australian counterparts in Sydney on January 7. But if nothing happens from now, they will be in the squad.
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“We decided two or three days ago that we didn’t want to risk him for Swansea”.
Last week was an important one for Liverpool, seeing off Manchester City and Swansea in the league, and securing qualification to the knock-out rounds of the Europa League. We are one game away from semi-finals and then a shot at Wembley. “So it will be a feisty game”. “We are not looking for another goalkeeper”, he continued, before adding, “We have enough high-quality goalkeepers, I’ve had a lot of goalkeepers over last few years and Simon Mignolet is one of the smartest I have ever had”.
But Ibe said other team’s results were of no effect to them. “[Dusan] Tadic is hard to play against”.
Like many a Liverpool fan, Keegan believes that raiding the Bundesliga will be key for Klopp to return Liverpool to the Champions League.
Dunphy appears to share Liverpool fans’ love of their new boss, saying Klopp “has got something going”.
“Manchester City were lucky in a way to beat Southampton”.
Southampton have made the quarter-finals for the second successive season, but they lost at this stage to Sheffield United in 2014/15.
“If we want to go through we have to fight”.
While I appreciate that Liverpool are definitely improving and I think that they will continue their improvement under Klopp but this game might come too early for them.
“Realistically it is most probably their best chance of winning a trophy, but it is knowing how to do it”.
Jurgen Klopp was greeted with joy in Anfield when he took over as manager in October. They are struggling to hit the heights that they did this time last term, with two wins, two draws and two defeats from their last six matches. Southampton played really well and they had chance to equalise, and in the end City won 3-1.
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Southampton v Liverpool gets underway at 19:45 GMT on Wednesday, 2nd December and is live on Sky Sports 1 in the UK.
