Deserved victory: Jurgen Klopp proud of Liverpool win against Swansea City

We play again on Wednesday against Southampton and that’s my problem.

Graziano Pelle is also expected to return to the Southampton squad after sitting out his side’s defeat by Manchester City through suspension, but Koeman must decide whether to start him or Shane Long.

“I’m not afraid. I prepare my team always about what we can do and how we beat the press and then we have good opportunities to create chances”. They’re a good team, brilliant offensively.

“The manager didn’t want to focus on any other team, just focus on us and keeping that consistency, keeping winning games and trying to get the three points”, he said.

“I’m excited. But you have to respect the situation, ours and Southampton”.

“OK, they’ve lost their last two games, but they’ll want to put things right and we know we’re in for a hard night”.

Perhaps tired by their Europa League win over Bordeaux in midweek, Klopp’s men laboured in the final third at times, but saw Milner earn the points prior to the long-awaited returns of captain Jordan Henderson and striker Daniel Sturridge.

“We will go into the big games as the underdogs and tell the lads to enjoy themselves because nobody expects you to get a result”, Allardyce said.

“We cannot ignore that this game could have overtime, 120 minutes would be too much for both”.

The victory over Swansea was Liverpool’s sixth win from their last seven outings – and the games will continue to come thick and fast with the Reds now gearing up for consecutive away trips to Southampton, Newcastle United and FC Sion.

Liverpool fans believe, and so does Eamon Dunphy. I think that the Saints will really fancy their chances here and I can see Saint Mary’s being packed and the atmosphere should be excellent.

“In this time you can not take this game and say “This is how football should be”.

“If they get two players in the transfer window, if he (manager Jurgen Klopp) gets a couple of the lads who are injured back into the side and Sturridge gets fit”.

Monk, though, believes his team’s spirited performance was evidence that his players remain firmly behind him.

“From minute one we were excellent today, from start to finish we limited a good Liverpool side to virtually nothing, we were never in danger”, he said.