Jurgen Klopp is really happy after Liverpool clinched their first clean sheet of the Premier League 2023/24 season.
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| Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, celebrates with his player after winning 3-0 in the Premier League match against Aston Villa at Anfield on Sunday 3 September, 2023. Photo: @LFC |
Liverpool made light work of Aston Villa, discomfiting the Claret and Blue by three goals to nothing.
Dominik Szoboszlai opened scoring, Matty Cash gifted the Reds the second goal when he hit the back of his own net and Mohamed Salah made it three for the hosts at Anfield on Sunday 3 September, 2023.
In his post-match reaction, Jurgen Klopp said, “It was a top game, the best for a while, a long time.”
Jurgen Klopp’s post-match reaction according to liverpoolfc.com:
On his satisfaction about Liverpool’s performance with and without the ball…
Absolutely, absolutely. It was a top game, the best for a while, a long time. I don’t know the last time we were that convincing, and we had a few good games obviously now – especially the end of last season and these kinds of things. That was really good. And you’re right, in both departments, offensively like defensively. You cannot do one step less against this Aston Villa team, then you struggle immediately.
We could use the formation today properly, everybody wanted the ball or protected or showed or offered. So, it was a top game, cannot say differently. I don’t know when I can say that the next time, but for today it was as good as could be, because the opponent is extremely strong and we didn’t let that happen today. That’s a massive compliment to my boys.
On a first clean sheet of the season and the form of Joe Gomez…
Both centre-halves played an exceptional game. With different jobs, to be honest. Diaby hiding in midfield on a nine-and-a-half, 10 position. So Joey had to step in there. Leaves Joel in a one-v-one with Ollie Watkins. As much as I love Joel, I think we know that Ollie Watkins might be a bit quicker than Joel and he did that really, really well.
Joey – I’m really pleased for him. Against Newcastle, by the way, it was like that already, to be honest, when he came on. It looked really like that. It’s very helpful when you have strong centre-halves, but if you leave them alone then the pitch is too big to defend. Today we were really together, really compact, the commitment was top-class and that’s why we played the way we played.
On the understanding developing between Darwin Nunez and Salah…
That was pretty much from the start like this, the two sprinters, they want to know where the other one is. I’m pretty sure Mo told Darwin before the game as well, if a ball comes high, please deflect it, I’m on my bike. Yeah, today the partnership was really good. I liked the line-up today, to be honest. It’s a bit of a problem in my job that we make line-ups before we know if it will work out – but it worked out pretty well. And yeah, really happy for Darwin as well, the performance was exceptional.
