Liverpool boss Klopp: It’s insane what we’re doing

And they were three much-needed points for Liverpool as they edged closer to the Top Four.

Danny Drinkwater, Jamie Vardy and Leonardo Ulloa struck to secure a 3-0 win for Claudio Ranieri’s unlikely lads. How can they get better defensively?

Roberto Firmino got his second goal on the day to tie the match 8 minutes later, Liverpool had all the momentum.

Steven Naismith scored on his Everton debut against Liverpool and made his mark in his maiden Norwich appearance against the Reds. A draw would have been deserved for both teams.

Palace took a 30th-minute lead when Jan Vertonghen turned Wilfried Zaha’s cross into his own net.

Nacer Chadli scored Tottenham’s third. That’s a total that translates to 1.42 goals and assists per 90. “I think it will be shown around the world on the TV”. “United none, Arsenal 1-2… it’s frustrating”.

Van Gaal sympathized with United’s fans.

Here are their player ratings from Premier League’s game of the season so far at Carrow Road… “They should be feeling the pain”, he said.

Manchester City’s league away form continues to be a worry. But 70, 80 per cent of the game we played football and that’s what you have to do.

None of the sides at the bottom helped their causes.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has described moments of his team’s defending as the “biggest rubbish ever” following Saturday’s dramatic 5-4 victory over Norwich City at Carrow Road.

It looked like new signing Steven Naismith would be an instant hero for Norwich after Dieumerci Mbokani cancelled out Roberto Firmino’s opener with a brilliant back-heel half an hour in. A massive three points for us.

“That’s how life is: solve one problem and you have another one”.

Klopp said Firmino was answering critics, who questioned if the Brazilian – lacking the physical presence of Benteke – was a striker.

Benteke has had some injury concerns in recent months, but is now back fully fit, but Klopp prefers to cherry pick games for him.

Klopp said: “I’m not sure we would have scored five if we didn’t concede four”.

He told the club’s official website: “We managed to score some good goals, but we have still got a lot of work to do in not conceding goals”. It’s very emotional. You sit outside, we are in the middle of the chaos and we have to react.

It was only the fourth Premier League match to finish 5-4.

The visitors’ defensive shortcomings were exposed again 12 minutes later when Hoolahan picked out the angled run of Naismith, who arrowed a low shot across Mignolet and inside the left-hand post.

Earlier, it had been similarly chaotic as Liverpool led 1-0, then trailed 3-1 by the 54th minute, before firing in three goals without reply to take a 4-3 lead with 75 minutes gone.