Jurgen Klopp pleased with Daniel Sturridge in Liverpool rout

His manager seemed impressed with his evening’s work too, saying: “I said to him after the game: ‘Now I know what everybody is talking about.’ I knew about his quality but not live in a stadium”.

Origi benefited from a pep-talk from Jurgen Klopp before the game but despite the Belgian showing glimpses of why Liverpool paid Lille £10million two summers ago the manager has cautioned against too much expectation. It somebody can tell me he’s available for the next game, then he plays, no problem.

Liverpool who blew Southampton apart on Wednesday night 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup are sixth in the table while Newcastle are just above Aston Villa, 19th in the table.

In progressing to the semi-finals against Stoke, Liverpool avoided the potentially more hard draws against Everton or Manchester City, but Klopp pointed to his team’s recent 4-1 win at City as proof they need not be concerned about facing them, and insisted that Stoke remain a significant challenge.

Daniel Sturridge showed what he gives to the team when fit and if he can feature in the majority of games this season then he could be the difference of Liverpool having a successful season.

“For him it was better how we did it in the last two games but it is ideal to have him back as an option on the bench that we can bring him into the game”. It’s important for us that we have these good strikers that can react in the moments.

‘I heard about Newcastle and knew a bit about their problems in the previous year.

The Germany worldwide of Turkish origin started in central midfield and setup Daniel Sturridge with an exquisite assist that put the Reds ahead for the first time in the game after coming back from one goal down.

You do have something called impact managers and they come into a club and over a brief spell they can improve results but I think Klopp has done more than that. “Of course, I know about his quality”.

Newcastle United, in contrast, are hamstrung when it comes to personnel as they now have ten players – including Cheick Tiote, Tim Krul and Steven Taylor – sidelined.

“(It was) great play by Liverpool”, he said.

Saido Mane hit a hat-trick in 2 minutes and 56 seconds – the fastest in Premier League history – and Garde is aware of the attacking prowess of Koeman’s team. Very complete, defensively strong, good movements.