Jurgen Klopp praises ‘exceptional’ Liverpool player who ‘connected the game’ vs Brentford.
Premier League champion Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp comments on his team’s 3-0 victory over Brentford at home. Following poor showings against Toulouse and Luton Town, Jurgen Klopp was thrilled with his team’s response in the victory over Brentford.
The Reds played in a 1-1 draw away at Kenilworth Road the previous weekend, then on Thursday night they lost 3-2 in the Europa League in France. But on Sunday at Anfield, they triumphed 3-0 over the Bees thanks to a brace from Mohamed Salah and another goal from Diogo Jota.
Leap frogging Arsenal into second in the Premier League table in the process, the victory ensured that Liverpool would be the side closest to reigning champions Man City heading into the November international break. And with Klopp well aware of the deadly threat Brentford posed to his side, the German was thrilled with his side’s comfortable win.
“That’s exactly what I wanted,” he responded to reporters when they inquired about his team’s response following their defeat by Toulouse. “It doesn’t make sense to lose a game or play poorly.”It’s just that, when you reflect on the season and previous seasons, there was never a season in which you won every football game. In the event that it does occur, you must draw the appropriate conclusions from it.
“I am extremely happy that we took advantage of the chance to fall short against Toulouse and then respond as we did today.” We’ll never know, but perhaps if we had defeated Toulouse with an outstanding showing, we wouldn’t be having such a difficult time facing Brentford today. That is quite feasible. “You can’t avoid these moments of struggle we have with set pieces. The wind has an effect. However, the way we managed the situations under our control was just remarkable.
“We were extremely dangerous whenever we were able to keep the ball on the ground and play football, especially when Darwin [Nunez] connected the game for us. “To be honest, we had some fantastic goals and put up a great show against one of the hardest opponents around.
“It was evident that many of them had to play really, really long because we had a very young bench and it was a set-piece game with Harvey Elliott and Lucho Diaz not being the set-piece specialists, to put it that way,” he continued.Furthermore, Brentford never changes, so they alter specifics but not the overall strategy. 1-0 down? No issue; 2-0 down? You’re in business; it’s game on.
We therefore emerged from that time with six corners. They had six corners and failed to score, which I’m not sure has ever happened before. However, it was simply having a strong work ethic and focus, along with playing football and somewhat conquering obstacles.