After narrowly losing 1-0 against Inter Milan in the midweek, it will be interesting to see how Liverpool respond during their trip to the Amex Stadium.
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Liverpool have a tricky fixture on Saturday in the Premier League when they take on Brighton & Hove Albion. After narrowly losing 1-0 against Inter Milan in the midweek, it will be interesting to see how Liverpool respond during their trip to the Amex Stadium. Even though the Reds lost the second leg clash to the Italian champions in the midweek, Jurgen Klopp’s side progressed through to the knockout stage, thanks to a better aggregate score. On Saturday, the Reds will hope to maintain their recent winning streak to keep the title race alive. For that to happen, Liverpool need their star man Mohamed Salah to continue scoring goals for fun.
Speaking about Salah’s future, Klopp, in his pre-match press conference, said, “I think Mo definitely expects this club to be ambitious, we were in the last years and we are… no, of course we cannot do much more [in the talks], that’s how it is. But I don’t think it’s about that, I think meanwhile it is Mo’s decision pretty much; I think the club did what the club can do, that’s how it is. There’s nothing to say about it, it’s all fine. From my point of view it’s exactly like it should be in this moment in time and everything is said. Nothing happened further, so no signing, no rejection or whatever. So we just have to wait for that, it’s completely fine. There is no rush in that situation.”
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Klopp was then asked about how he reacts to Graham Potter labelling Liverpool as ‘one of the best’. Talking about Brighton, Klopp said, “Brighton are not the best in the world but they are incredibly good. We are not the best in the world, obviously, but it is nice words. Graham knows exactly what he really thinks, he knows that it is football and there is a big chance you can give other teams a struggle. That’s what we try to do constantly and that’s what they will try, definitely, even when the results in the last few weeks were not brilliant for Brighton, but the performance level is really, really good.”
“I think they are fourth-highest [in the] possession stats in the league, which is not easy to have. So, you need to do a lot of good stuff to keep the ball that long in a football game and in the end, it’s for us always a challenge to face them. We realised it in the home game: when you are not compact against Brighton then they play in and around you, that’s how it is, that’s how they set up. So we have to make sure that we find a proper defending attitude and from there we go. We don’t go there to show who is the better side or who is world-class or stuff like this, not at all. We are humble enough to go there and really work incredibly hard and put in a proper shift. That’s what I expect – not a fancy football game, I expect us as a real hard-working unit.”
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