In his opening 10 appearances for the club he had failed to find the net and after starting in Klopp’s first games in charge, he had seemingly slipped down the pecking order in recent weeks.
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Should Sturridge maintain his fitness, he would likely force his way back into Hodgson’s reckoning, whilst Harry Kane has shown consistency after a slow start and Jamie Vardy has been nothing short of sensational for Leicester. Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck is also expected to return to the fray early in the New Year. However, Sturridge scored two goals in quick succession to give the visitors the lead. “Let’s see if they take their eye off the league cup for champions league involvement”, Ball tweeted.
When Moreno’s powerful shot, from the edge of the area following Lallana’s cleared corner, was deflected in by Origi in the 45th minute, Liverpool’s progress into the semi-finals already began to feel secure.
“I told him “you have to do this, this and this, not do the hard things too often and so on” – and he said “yes, yes and yes, I know, I know”, said Klopp. “It’s important for us we have these good strikers”.
“Maybe Daniel can be better”, the 48-year-old is quoted as saying by the Guardian.
“You ask me, you know him much longer than myself”.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he warned his players against complacency during last night’s win against Southampton in the League Cup.
“Strange! I would have had no problems with a game against Everton”.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp watches the quarterfinal English League Cup soccer match against Southampton at St Mary’s, Southampton, England, Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015.
“We spoke about this at Liverpool a few days ago”.
The winger cut in from the right flank and found his teammate in space, with Origi blasting past Stekelenburg to put the game beyond doubt with just over 20 minutes to play. Very complete, defensively strong, good movement, and they killed the game with high quality, but [it was] too easy in my opinion.
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The Reds will play Stoke City in the semi-finals, with the first-leg tie taking place in the week commencing 4 January and the second-leg match set for the week commencing 25 January, both live on Sky Sports.
