James Milner feels there is even more to come from Liverpool after their stunning victory at Manchester City.
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Liverpool have a new-found “freedom” thanks to Jurgen Klopp, former Reds midfielder Danny Murphy has told talkSPORT.
The 4-1 scoreline might have been 8-1 as City suffered what their manager, Manuel Pellegrini, labelled a “collective failure”, yet Klopp urged his men to show they can be consistent and produce a performance like this before their own supporters when Swansea City visit on Sunday. It’s not his team but he’s got them playing in his way.
‘Kloppmania’ takes over as German delivers 4-1 thrashing of Man City and promises more The Juergen Klopp effect began to really take hold on Saturday as Liverpool hammered mercurial Manchester City 4-1 at the Etihad Stadium to provide the Merseysiders’ new coach with his most striking Premier League win yet.
The link-up play and fluidity of their forward line was sensational: the movement of Roberto Firmino especially, who played, most of the time, in the traditional centre forward role, caught the eye.
“I knew he was going there with the same game plan as at Stamford Bridge and Manchester City’s team on paper looked like they could struggle defensively in my opinion”. We pressed them all over the field, created a few chances and I thought we could have had a few more.
Since Klopp became the Liverpool manager, Liverpool have lost only one game, which was in the Premier League against Crystal Palace.
He said: “It was odd coming back to place where I was for five years and had a lot of good times, but as soon as you step on the field it is business time”.
Klopp said: “I don’t want players to speak about our training and what we do specially, because it’s our training”.
“We were both involved in the first goal so it’s never easy [after that]”.
On Saturday the game flowed perfectly into their hands with an early goal, coupled with woeful City defending, allowing them to pick City off on the counter-attack.
That is a daunting run for any team and may see them drop away from the top four.
“We all must think what will happen in the future, we have an important game on Wednesday, sometimes it happens in football to play like this”.
“We need to continue like this and keep our focus because we have so many games in front of us”.
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“I think that was the first time we’ve seen the work of him offensively, what he can do and maybe the damage he can cause with his teams, and that’s from working with those players for 10 days during the worldwide break”.
