Goals from Fabinho, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Takumi Minamino helped Klopp’s side register a massive win.
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Jurgen Klopp was understandably happy with the comfortable manner in which Liverpool overcame Brentford’s challenge in Sunday’s 3-0 victory. Thanks to the thumping win, the Reds moved up to second in the Premier League standings. Goals from Fabinho, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Takumi Minamino helped Klopp’s side register a massive win. On the stroke of half-time, Fabinho opened the scoring as Oxlade-Chamberlain and birthday boy Minamino added to the scoreline during the second period.
Speaking about Minamino’s performance on his 27th birthday, Klopp said, “Today pretty much started with birthday songs in all available languages and it was really nice. So Taki obviously got the boost already before the game through the nice songs. And then, meanwhile, coming on and being that much in the game and scoring this really nice goal was absolutely helpful for him and for us. Very important. How I said, Taki’s in a good moment and that’s why it was very helpful.”
On Minamino returning from injury, he explained, “That’s now a little bit ago. Of course, injury interrupts then rhythm and all these kinds of things. He played now the last game, 90 minutes, and now today coming on, that was the rhythm, it was right for him. It was Thursday-Sunday – it’s not easy after coming back from injury, so that’s why he didn’t start today. It’s good. How I said, he’s in a good moment.”
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Klopp was asked whether the win improves confidence and shows there are ‘goals in the team’. He replied, “I’m not surprised about that but winning is good for confidence, definitely. I don’t think we struggled confidence-wise. We can pretty much cut off the public noise, so what’s happening around. We knew against Arsenal what was not right but what the world out there makes of it then in the moment, so like just putting the finger on the obvious thing that a couple of players are not here – world-class players, by the way. We knew that, so we didn’t have to read it and we could do our own thing. And that’s what we did.”
Asked whether he needs to turn ‘doubters into believers’ in the title race, the Liverpool manager said, “Yes, but if you would do something like this, we wouldn’t do it in public. So, we don’t have to convince anybody outside to believe. If they want to believe, they can believe. I think people are with us, they want to enjoy the ride, they are ready to go for as much as we can. This is not the situation to talk about a title fight obviously. I’m not sure how many points are in it now – it’s 11, one game in hand? In a normal world, nothing happens anymore – but what is normal nowadays? We try to do our part. With the rest, we have nothing to do.”
