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The priests liverpool concert11/10/2022 I like talking about Virgil but I don’t like when we talk about last season ‘Virgil van Dijk didn’t play’. The package of Virgil van Dijk is really helpful. On the impact Van Dijk’s distribution from the back has on the team’s style of play… But the full-backs were really good, which helped us to win the game. I cannot remember a high-press situation, it is just not possible, at least it was not possible today. It is only around the centre-halves where you have to pick the ball up and we have to protect constantly like crazy. In football, usually you have a plan, you have an idea, you want to win the ball here or there, against Burnley there is no winning the ball here or there. I think everybody thinks both full-backs played a good game and in this situation that means they were defensively really good as well in a really difficult game from a defensive point of view. Both spectacular, if you want, with two nice – Kostas with the cross and Trent with the little cheeky curve ball or whatever for Sadio. On the performances of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Kostas Tsimikas…īoth full-backs had a good game. We won it, it was not always like this, but sometimes as well, so let’s just keep going. It is the situation, it was a tough game, an intense game, how it always is against Burnley. It’s really special, really specific and very aggressive and, as I said, with the new idea – let the game flow – it makes it not easier. We need to find a way to get used to that, but for this game today there was no chance to change anything from last week because you needed to be used to each other to face this Burnley team. We have to mix it up and we will do that because none of these guys, especially after a long injury, should now then play all the time three games a week. We needed that, so they will all play the first four will definitely play altogether. I can tell you now already that because of the things that happened during the last year, we needed desperately to bring in the fourth centre-half and now we have six with Rhys and Nat Phillips. We are not surprised by that because they played together, they are both really good footballers and that’s how it is. On the combination of Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip in helping to thwart Burnley… That is exactly how he has trained now for six or seven weeks since we are back, since he is back from loan. Everybody wants to talk to me about Harvey and I understand absolutely – when an 18-year-old boy plays such a mature game I can understand why everyone was asking, but I was not surprised he played like this. Yes, needed Ali in moments as well, even when the best save he had was offside before, but it was anyway a sensational save. We played a good game, we scored two, could have scored more. Obviously, the new idea about football, let the game flow more or whatever, I think we will talk about that quite frequently over the year, but we won the game. How the game was as well, pretty special, because Burnley are Burnley – and Burnley cause you problems. That was, for sure, the best 12.30pm atmosphere we had. On the return of a full-capacity Anfield and Harvey Elliott’s performance…Įverybody was really looking forward to this football festival, to this game, and I think nobody leaves this place today with any kind of disappointment because I think all of our dreams were fulfilled today, atmosphere-wise. Read on for a transcript of Klopp’s post-match press conference… Use code 2122GOFREE to get your first month free. Extended highlights and full match replay available on LFCTV GO from midnight BST.
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