Precious confidence like a small flower, says Liverpool’s Klopp

Jurgen Klopp praised the impact made by Daniel Sturridge in Liverpool’s 6-1 defeat of Southampton, but refused to accept his team had been given the choice Capital One Cup semi-final draw against Stoke.

With confidence high on Merseyside amid steady progression in Klopp’s short time at the club, they will be heavily fancied to win comfortably against a Newcastle side struggling in 19th.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has yet to decide whether playmaker Philippe Coutinho is fit enough to face Newcastle on Sunday.

“That shouldn’t be the biggest problem for us as we’ve got other players who didn’t play on Wednesday”.

‘I’m not an expert in this because I had seven years in Dortmund and seven years in Mainz.

“Emre is like the whole team, he is in a good way”, Klopp was quoted as saying in the Liverpool Echo.

“But it can work in different ways”.

‘I only know about the actual situation at Newcastle now, not why they changed managers in the past. We have to be aware.

It is clear that Can is has become a key player under his new manager. I can’t tell you something about Newcastle. “I have never had a problem with too much confidence!” Steve McLaren’s Newcastle are in real trouble they haev the joint worst defence in the league and the third worst offence.

But former Anfield midfielder Murphy says Steve McClaren’s men can get a result if they take a leaf out of Sunderland’s book. “We have to play football against them”. I like working with him but like every young player, he has to learn.

“If somebody tells me he’s available, then next time, he will play with us”.

With no team able to take a dominant hold, Liverpool are starting to look one of the more credible contenders. “We have to see how we do this”. We have good players and they need to come through this. This combination has left them in the relegation zone but they are still just two points from safety and a win here could well see them bounce out of the relegation zone.

– There have been a total of seven red cards shown in the last seven top-flight meetings between these two sides (the last six all for the Magpies with the one before that for the Reds).

Can provided an assist in the convincing victory but will have to sit out the Premier League encounter against Newcastle.

Liverpool are flying right now and have won their last four away games by a combined fourteen goals to three.

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