“But I don’t like too much after a game where everybody could see that we were good that we celebrate it like something really special happened”.
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“Not only with Mama but with all the players I told them all what I thought would be best and now the squad is like it is”.
“Have a couple of good seasons here, and then the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid are going to come sniffing”.
“This is the challenge for the whole season”.
“The quicker we can get over this result the better”.
Klopp also admitted that Lucas, who gave Leicester a glimmer of hope with a poor mis-control, was not fully prepared to play the entire game.
Next up for Liverpool is a crunch Premier League clash against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Friday night.
“We were not tuned”. And while they’ve been inconsistent to start the Premier League season, a win over Leicester would get their season back on track. But it is easy with great players like Daniel (Sturridge), Philippe (Coutinho) and Roberto (Firmino) as well.
‘I don’t play! It’s nice, I like all the players, but please don’t sing my name before the game is decided.
“Immediately when the Kop started signing ‘Jurgen Klopp la la la” they were clear on Simon Mignolet.
“I love these players”, he said. It’s something that depends on each other, it’s nice but not necessary.
The Liverpool manager has long believed that those inside Anfield can ignite the intensity of his side’s play even further and bring any opponent down, no matter what size or the resources available. “It was a good performance in a wonderful place”, he added, referring to the new main stand that opened at Liverpool’s historic home, increasing the venue’s capacity to approximately 54,000. “That is what I expect from us, what we did today”.
“We were waiting for this kind of football”, he said.
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A second defeat in four league matches, having lost just three times last season on the way to their unexpected trophy, was not the preparation they would have wanted heading into a Champions League debut against Club Brugge on Wednesday.
