Klopp's Magic Rubbing off A LITTLE on Liverpool

Liverpool fans...relax, and get your expectations in check. Do not assume Klopp will deliver Champions League football in his first season.

Okay? Good.

But, you can be happy and rejoice in the fact that the team is looking pretty good and you are already seeing the smart and attractive football that he wants Liverpool to play. I did not approve at all of the no-striker formation he went with, but a goal is a goal and their build-up play lead to Coutinho cutting in and curling that delicious strike in. I would just kindly ask Klopp never puts out a team to play a match with no striker ever again.







It was really in the second half where they blossomed when Benteke came onto the pitch. They moved the ball around with more confidence, and looked like a team that had found their identity and already were manifesting the ideals that Klopp had been trying to instill into them. Without a doubt they were deserved winners. Albeit, playing against a Chelsea team that played like a bunch of numbskulls who were playing this fishnet ball for the first time in their lives; but all in all, you have to just give credit to what was a good and commanding performance by Liverpool for the entire ninety minutes.

Moving on; I can't come out and say Liverpool will get fourth ahead what should be Tottenham if Chelsea don't make it. This was just one game, and it's the first win he's managed after a multitude of draws. Liverpool will face sterner tests in what is the toughest league in the world to play in. And Klopp will have to do this with such talents as Lucas and Milner. So you can see why I'm not waving the pom-poms and behind the German hysteria of Liverpool now being the team to watch out for. Jurgen needs to get his kind of players so that the team can truly be playing to the potential that he has set them out for. This is a season and we haven't even reached halfway yet. History has told us that there are ups and downs in a campaign. so before people get overexcited, let's allow the season to unfold.


Credit to Liverpool and the players. Especially Coutinho who has been maligned by some. He came up with two excellent G's and he is definitely a player that will be part of the Klopp system in the future. Every team needs that one magician, the creative dynamo that you look to for things to happen. I'm expecting Klopp to improve Coutinho's playmaking side and make him offer more assists to go along with his goals. In the role that he is playing, it's imperative that he tries to bring other players into the game and perhaps play the same way that Kagawa did under Klopp. Of course, this is just one position and there are others that the Blonde German will need to look over and set right.



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