Ahead of the clash, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke about the positions played by Cody Gakpo since joining them in January this year.
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Liverpool are in the middle of a good run of form, as the Reds are flying high in different competitions. They have started the season on a fantastic note and have just kept getting better with every passing game. Be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, they seem to be unstoppable. Next up is an away game against Luton Town in the Premier League. The Reds will undoubtedly enter the match as the clear favourites.
Ahead of the clash, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke about the positions played by Cody Gakpo since joining them in January this year. Asked about Gakpo’s different roles and development at the club, Klopp, quoted on the club’s website, said, “Top. Since Cody is here he played, you are right, a few positions. And now starting the season he played in midfield. If we have everybody available it was never the plan to put Cody there, we just knew he can play there – and he can obviously.”
He added: “But it was for him again something new after the false nine last year and all these kinds of things, all of a sudden always new positions. But he’s a super-smart player so he can adapt to that. But we want him to adapt and then you have to perform immediately on the top level, and that was in the midfield position a bit difficult, but with a little bit more time he can play there perfectly, no doubt about that. Then the injury, which was really unlucky in this horrible game [at Tottenham Hotspur] and now back, he’s just a versatile striker, he can play everywhere up front there.
Klopp is also happy with the relationship he is seeing between his forward players on the pitch. “For us it’s super-important. He arrives in the box, he is a good shooter, he has a good nose for the situation. He is a top, top, top player, and a really good character as well. That’s very helpful. How I said, the boys up front all like each other – that’s really like that. There’s not this battle between ‘Will I start?’ They all like each other and they know they can all play together, and that’s really important and they enjoy it a lot. They all want to start but if they don’t start they know they will come on and have to in an ideal world kill the game off, and Cody is a very important part of that,” he explained.
The Liverpool manager then shifted his focus to the game against Luton Town and spoke about what to expect from the game. “It’s a football game, we cannot change that. It’s important to know before a game – as much as you can know it – what he thinks, how they see it, bah, bah, bah, all these kinds of things. But that stops at a specific moment and then you play a football game, and that means you have to do the necessary stuff. We will probably face a low block, that means we have to deal with that. We will probably face set-pieces with quality, that’s why we have to make sure we are ready for that. All these different things. It’s Luton but it’s not the first time we will face a team who will play that way probably. That’s what we have to deal with and that’s what we will prepare the boys for,” he added.
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