“We can now talk about [Milner] if you want because he was not a left full-back last season”, Klopp said at his post-match press conference.
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Having been outclassed in the first period, David Meyler reduced the hosts’ three-goal lead with a goal six minutes after the interval.
The pair’s understanding has been one of the reasons behind Liverpool’s emerging success and the England global, who has scored four goals for club and country this season, received a standing ovation when he was replaced in the 69th minute.
“Second half was not as exciting, still good but not at 100 per cent of concentration”.
Phil Babb feels that Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has a headache when it comes to his team selection, as he has so many players in form. They did a really good job today, not in the situations where they conceded goals but around [that].
Klopp praised Mike Phelan’s men for the way in which they “stood in the game” and “were not over-aggressive” or didn’t try to “kick us out of the game”.
The home side, already ahead through Adam Lallana, looked poised to score every time they pressed forward with Sadio Mane making it three before the break with his 11th goal in his last 13 league games for Southampton and Liverpool.
Klopp insisted that Liverpool still “have a lot of things to improve” and said that if they “are brilliant” then they must learn “to be brilliant for 95 minutes” rather than being “brilliant first-half” and “still good, but not brilliant anymore” in the second-half.
In the second half, a little bit better would have been nice.
“I think I address the situation when I think is the right moment”.
Liverpool are up to third place in the Premier League after another goal-fest at Anfield, and with Mane, Coutinho, Lallana, and Firmino regularly scoring/creating goals, the Reds seem well equipped this season to mount a genuine assault on the top four.
“We didn’t give Hull, which is a really good football playing side, the opportunity to create confidence”. It’s a very important position for us, a very, very important position for us.
“In each training [session], we have to perform”.
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“That was very important, because we scored the goals right and all that stuff, but winning the ball back in these moments is so important and it becomes really hard for the opponent to increase confidence”.
