Delighted Klopp Tells Players To Stay Focussed
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published December 30, 2018 | 03:54 AM
London, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Dec, 2018 ) :Jurgen Klopp refused to get carried away with the growing expectation that Liverpool can lift the league title for the first time in 29 years saying his players must stay focussed after they thrashed Arsenal 5-1 on Saturday.
Roberto Firmino's hat-trick -- the first by a Liverpool player against the Gunners since Peter Crouch in 2007 -- as well as a goal apiece by Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane ensured Liverpool's front three all scored in the same league game for the first time this season.
It gives Liverpool a nine point advantage over Tottenham Hotspur who surprisingly slipped up 3-1 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers and 10 over champions Manchester City, who play Southampton on Sunday.
Klopp, though, kept his feet firmly on the ground especially with a potentially title-defining clash away at Manchester City on Thursday.
"All over it was a good performance against a good opponent and our reaction (to going behind to an early goal) was just brilliant," he told BT Sport.
Klopp said Tottenham's loss had not affected his players at all.
"For sure Tottenham's result people out there reacted, but not inside the dressing room where they were completely concentrated on the match and not allowed to have that influence our game.
"That is how I want the team to stay which is to be concentrated nothing else." Liverpool's outstanding central defender Virgil van Dijk, who has added the solidity to a defence which was once a real weakness in the side, said they were not the finished article yet but it was a good moment to be a member of the Liverpool squad.
"We still need to improve a lot of things but we are very happy with where we are at the moment we have to keep intensity high and continue in this way," the 27-year-old told BT Sport.
"Anything is possible. We are in a good way, it's tough but it's a great time to be a Liverpool player." Van Dijk's fellow defender Scottish international full-back Andy Robertson said the City game had been on their minds but they had so far done the business without letting it distract them.
"(Manchester City) is a huge one," the 24-year-old told BT sports.
"Everyone in the squad has been looking at it.
"But in December we've knocked the games off one by one and we've now got a healthy lead. We look forward to it."
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