Jurgen Klopp explains one minor criticism of Liverpool…

Jurgen Klopp explains one minor criticism of Liverpool in 7-0 Man United thrashing

Jurgen Klopp has hailed Liverpool’s 7-0 victory over Manchester United as one of the best performances for a long, long time. However, despite the dismantling of the Reds’ bitter rivals, he wasn’t completely satisfied after the final whistle.

Braces from Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah gave the scoreline an already emphatic feel before substitute Roberto Firmino scored late on to wrap up the victory.

And while he was pleased at his side’s ‘top performance’, the German still admitted it was a ‘freak result’ and that he had had to remind his players to stick to the game-plan as they understandably got a little caught up in the occasion as the game wore on.

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“It was one of the best performances for a long, long time,” he told reporters. “Freak result, top performance. Really top performance and from the start. I think the way we started the game was really special. The best for a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

“We were there, we were aggressive but we played football and were calm in the right moments. Super lively, super active. Other moments, for 25 minutes it opened up a bit. United were a bit better and found a way into the game.

“But then the late goal before half-time was a sensational goal. Robbo, cutting inside, really calm and what we were actually asking for. In these moments we need to give ourselves time to get in the right position.

“Cody realised early enough that Robbo wants to pass the ball there and a super finish. Second half, I don’t think could start better with the two goals we force. And from that moment on the boys were flying.

“It was really difficult to play against us. Performance is super, three points are even more important and the result is just the result. We all know our goal difference doesn’t look like we won one game 9-0, we won one game 7-0 to be honest.

“I love the performance, I love the three points. I love the result as well but I don’t carry that around.”

He continued: “You saw what positive result can do to the boys. We’re 7-0 up, someone played a backpass to Luke Shaw and we chased him with four players. You think, ‘What are we doing here?’ How much adrenaline it gives you and how much positivity it gives you.

“When you get a bit more dominant results-wise, in that moment you don’t use the patterns anymore because you don’t need to. But the patterns we had for today were exactly the things which caused United problems.

“We didn’t see any reason why we should stop at 4-0. I didn’t tell them to go and score another three, not at all. I was absolutely fine with the result.

“I wanted us to understand even more that the things we had to do tonight were the right thing and we had to keep doing it. Let me say like this, I love the impact of Stefan when he came on. But he was a six and he was everywhere! We had to remind him, 'By the way, you’re the six!'

“We had a moment in the first half where Fabinho and Hendo were half-left in the box. I’m not sure where Harvey was there but probably not in protection. These moments we don’t need.

“That’s when you lose a bit because of the excitement, you lose the overview but these things are really important to be stable and that’s what we need to be. We need consistency, we need results.

“It will not always be like this where we score with all these situations. There will be other games where we don’t score as much. You have to dominate football games if you can. Today we could and that’s why we have to do it.”

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