James Milner thinks Liverpool could have scored more at Manchester City
Liverpool’s front three against City, dubbed LFC by some supporters on social networking site Twitter, undoubtedly suits Klopp’s style of play in terms of movement and drive. I remember them coming to our place in the Champions League and they battered us.
It wasn ” t because of the weather and it wasn ” t a problem with Brendan Rodgers because he is a brilliant manager.
Midfielder Milner, who left City for Anfield in the summer, said: “I thought we were outstanding”.
Carragher told Sky Sports News: “You could see the work that had been done during the week. I can’t say that we are good enough but if you want to write it you can”.
Liverpool secured an excellent 4-1 win over City on Saturday, but Klopp was seen shouting at his players at various points despite such a seemingly comfortable win.
Since Klopp became the Liverpool manager, Liverpool have lost only one game, which was in the Premier League against Crystal Palace. “The team performance was top class and now we need to carry on in this way”.
For City, this was a match exposing their flaws against teams that press high and are willing to outwork them in the midfield. Just a little bit more creativity and he’ll be back to that player we saw a couple of seasons ago’.
“We scored four goals and we must have had three or four other one-on-ones with their keeper”.
Briefly it seemed Liverpool might rue Firmino’s failure to take two chances when they led 3-0, first shooting at Joe Hart and then hooking a shot wide from goal-scorer Philippe Coutinho’s flick-on.
“Going into the next few games, for the confidence and for all the players, it will help us”.
“We didn’t want to be deep in defence and just waiting to counter-attack”. We’ve also missed Henderson’s leadership qualities.
Jurgen Klopp has explained his reasoning for shouting at Roberto Firmino and Emre Can during a comfortable victory over Manchester City.
“He trained 10-12 days with us without interruption, the same as Coutinho, and that is the reason we played like this with the formation like this – we tried to put on the pitch as many players who trained together”.
Firmino was playing in the most advanced attacking role while two notable out-and-out strikers, fit-again Daniel Sturridge and Christian Benteke, were on the bench.