Jurgen Klopp hails Liverpool's 5-0 win against Manchester United as "insane" result

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was full of praise for his players following a 5-0 win against arch-rivals Manchester United, in a Premier League encounter on Sunday. Goals inside the opening 13 minutes from Naby Keita and Diogo Jota set the Reds on their way to an incredible away victory. Mohamed Salah further became the first visiting player to score a Premier League hat-trick at Old Trafford. Salah has now netted in 10 consecutive games for Klopp’s team, who scored 13 times while winning at Watford, Atletico Madrid and United in the space of a remarkable eight-day period.

“People will talk about it in the future”

“Greatest days? I didn’t think about it, yet. It’s a good day, a really good day and I don’t want to be disrespectful. I have no idea, but it’s a big one. We know that. Obviously after the game I got told that never happened in the long history of LFC; this group always wanted to write their own little chapters for the big, big history book of this club. This one was a little one tonight, a little chapter. People will talk about it in the future, 100 per cent, because it will not happen very often, if it happens again at all,” said Klopp in an interaction with Liverpool’s official website.

“We saw the game as well and we know we were lucky in two or three situations where United could have scored in the first half. I think they should have scored the first one, but that doesn’t make our performance [any less], that’s just how it is. In front of the goal, in the last third, we were exceptional. We were clinical, we were ruthless, our high press was outstanding, we really won balls in great areas, the formation was top and all these kind of things you want to see as a coach, worked out really great. The difference is now that you usually don’t score with each situation you have pretty much, but that’s what we did and why we were 4-0 up at half-time. Second half, early 5-0 and the red card, game over, so then just control it and try to get home healthy,” added the Liverpool manager.

“Naby is an outstanding player”

Klopp hailed the performance of midfielder Naby Keita before being stretchered off following a two-footed tackle by Paul Pogba.

“Naby is in a great moment. Naby is an outstanding player and we spoke about it, about the game at Atletico: he played outstandingly well until he made the mistake around the goal of Atletico after the set-piece and that obviously shattered him a little bit, and that should not happen obviously, that is clear. But in such an atmosphere, against such an opponent, all of a sudden when you’re thinking about different things then it can happen. But it was clear we would start him again because he is in really good shape and yeah, he proved us right,” he stated.

Liverpool fans will certainly be full of happiness following such a spectacular performance.