Liverpool FC celebrate their 6-1 win over Southampton

“He wants to show everything in the short time he plays – everyone wanted him before Liverpool bought him – but he has to learn”.

Ronald Koeman has highlighted Southampton’s “mistakes defensively” in their 6-1 defeat to Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the League Cup at St Mary’s. For many it drove home the difference in potency between the fierce northern giants.

Klopp has turned Liverpool around to a point where they no longer need to rely on Sturridge, which is a wonderful achievement in itself after just a first few weeks at the club.

Manager Jurgen Klopp had stated last week that there needed to be a better differentiation between “what is serious pain and what is only pain” after Sturridge suffered yet another niggling problem.

Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool): What a return to the starting line-up, not showing any signs of sluggishness after another long spell out.

The goals took Sturridge’s tally for the season to four from five games, yet more incredibly took him past Wayne Rooney’s number of domestic goals.

Klopp’s team were thereafter fully in control, inspiring Divock Origi’s first goals for the club when the Belgian scored a hat-trick, in addition to a further, impressive finish in the second half from substitute Jordon Ibe. It’s not the most fun thing for the lads but it’s what we have to do, especially if we change the system like we did today.

“My first season in League One under Alan Pardew was a big year for me”. Not only this, but I can think of worse people to have around the place if Liverpool try and sign any players in the January transfer window, particularly if they are local lads who have grown up watching Gerrard.

“Everyone would have said Liverpool were flying after beating Manchester City and winning a Europa League game, but we did okay against them”, Fabianski was quoted as saying by British media. If the first goal had been good, the second was even better, not least because of how it was created. Gerrard later claimed he would not have left Liverpool over the summer if he had been offered the chance to join then manager, Brendan Rodgers’s backroom team.