Bournemouth rarely threatened to equalise in the closing stages, barring a decent Matt Ritchie shot that Bogdan kept out, and as the final whistle blew, a relieved Anfield celebrated Klopp’s maiden victory as Liverpool manager.
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The players are running to much to think, particularly Emre Can who now outruns his reasoning, he keeps running and running and then shoots waywardly.
“I really don’t have problems”. How I understand it is, if we bring new information, if you were at this level, then you go a step down and then it goes in the other direction.
As a result, it was little surprise to see the three combine for the opening goal, even if it needed Clyne to slam the ball home after Teixeira’s cheeky backheel was cleared off the line. We had results, not the most satisfying in the world. We now have three days to prepare for Chelsea. The 48-year-old is under pressure to repeat those heroics at Liverpool, particularly following the departures of Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, which leaves the first-team squad without a Merseyside influence.
Nathaniel Clyne scores his first Liverpool goal.
One man who hasn’t breached Klopp’s starting eleven so far is former Rodgers favourite Joe Allen who Metro have actually linked with the Reds’ weekend opponents Southampton today.
“You want to do what I say, but sometimes they forget to do what they can”.
Klopp confirmed in his pre-match press conference his intention to make changes to his side, with youngsters Connor Randall, Cameron Brannagan and Joao Teixeira all expected to play a few part. It’s because I want to win the game.
“We have to give these players enough time for development, for improvement, it’s really, really important”.
Christian Benteke and Daniel Sturridge are out of the fourth-round tie – and are also major doubts to face Chelsea on Saturday- and the Daily Mirror claim that Klopp will entrust a striking role to Firmino as opposed to Belgian Divock Origi. “It is a self-fulfilling prophecy”, Klopp said. “He’s not in training so we have to wait”. I’m always interested to see how and why a team is successful and I love that different ways of playing are embraced.
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Yaya Toure made it four 15 minutes from time with a penalty for his first home goal since New Year’s Day, Damien Delaney pulled one back but youngster Manu Garcia promptly tucked away the fifth.
