Liverpool were 3-0 up after 32 minutes and Manuel Pellegrini described his team’s display as the poorest of his tenure. “We’ve had bigger chances [in other games] since I was here but we did not take them”.
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Nobody would have thought that Liverpool will draw its away fixture against Manchester City let alone think of winning the match, but the Reds was on top of its game dominating the Champions and beating it comprehensively 4-1, despite missing out on quite a few players due to injuries. “The two reasons for that, I think, was to stop Man City – when they were in possession – from playing balls into midfield and force them wide”, Carragher explained.
“It doesn’t work, if you are stuck in the forest and it’s dark and you are afraid and someone tells you not to be then it doesn’t work”. He will use him and get the best out of him in some situations but I look at that bench and I see Sturridge and I see Benteke.
City suffered their worst home defeat ever at the Etihad as the Reds were rampant and totally outplayed their opposition with Skrtel himself netting the last goal in a 4-1 win, his first in nearly a year.
It would be wrong to say that Klopp’s time at Anfield has gone perfectly, as he suffered his first Premier League loss against Crystal Palace last weekend before a vast improvement against City.
“They are a team of top-class players, and that will hurt them”, he said.
“We tried to make another system and press high but it was exactly the same, it was not our night”.
“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”.
“But we’ve managed to get 12 points out of those games with precious victories that we didn’t seem to get under Brendan Rodgers”. We need common experience so we can work with it.
They were unfortunately involved in Liverpool’s first goal after just seven minutes as Sagna was dispossessed by Philippe Coutinho and Mangala turned a Roberto Firmino pass into his own net. Winning every game is the aim with the quality we have in the squad.
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Simon Mignolet believes a hug can go a long way at Liverpool and will be hoping the warm embrace of new boss Jurgen Klopp will inspire the Anfield club to Europa League success against Bordeaux.
