Desire Costs Very Little – Liverpool Legend Slams West Ham’s Performance

Man United beat Leicester 2-1 with goals from Pogba, Shaw and Vardy.

Salah and Mane’s pain at worldwide level was Liverpool’s gain as early exits at the World Cup with Egypt and Senegal meant they could join the club’s pre-season tour of the United States, unlike a host of Premier League stars who returned to training just last week after their exertions in Russian Federation.

Centre-back Van Dijk says they know they have the quality in depth to compete with reigning champions and title favourites Manchester City but now they must add the consistency after finishing 25 points behind Pep Guardiola’s side last season. Manuel Pellegrini could not have asked for a more hard opening game as he took charge of the London side in his first game as their manager. Mourinho named Pogba captain and hailed a “monster” performance after he took responsibility to open the scoring from the penalty spot. You can not test before you have the test. Woodward is adamant Pogba is not for sale despite rumoured interest from Barcelona.

To many, Naby Keita was an unknown quantity of sorts heading into his first competitive 90 minutes as a Liverpool player against West Ham United on Sunday.

The strength of Klopp’s squad was underlined by the Liverpool bench against West Ham, with Daniel Sturridge, Xherdan Shaqiri and Jordan Henderson all introduced in the second half, while Fabinho and Adam Lallana unused.

It may only be August, but Liverpool has let the rest of the league know their sights are set on the title.

However, the UCL finalists have bounced back stronger than ever, and better than most of their counterparts. Hazard has been linked with a move to Real Madrid and only returned to training with Chelsea a week ago after helping Belgium finish third at the World Cup.

Eric Dier is keen to “shut up” Tottenham’s critics after the north London club failed to buy any players in the summer transfer window. We will try to score more goals.

“I’m not complaining just about one offside goal because I repeat that Liverpool played well and deserved to win, but I don’t think that the difference was four goals”. They did improve after the arrival of Virgil van Dijk in January but a softness remained until the end.

But it wasn’t just the XI players on the pitch that Liverpool fans were pleased with. They deserved to win.

Two of their potent forward trio picked up where they left off last season, and you’re inclined to think they might even be more deadly, given the greater support and solidity behind them.