Liverpool German manager, Jurgen Klopp, said, his side’s 3-1 triumph over the Cottagers “was the best performance so far against Fulham away”.
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| Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, celebrates after his side defeated Fulham 3-1 in the Premier League 2023/24 match at Craven Cottage on Sunday 21 April, 2024. Photo: @LFC |
The Reds emerged victorious over Fulham in the Premier League 2023/24 match at Craven Cottage on Sunday 21 April, 2023.
The win means Liverpool’s title hopes remain alive.
According to liverpoolfc.com, in his post-fulham reaction, Klopp said:
On it being a strong performance, especially in the second half…
I liked big parts of the first half already but you are right, the second half was a complete performance, if you want. The start in the game was good. For us, you cannot really explain that, but for us Fulham is a tough place to go. I can’t even remember if we won here before, to be honest, we always struggle here a little bit. If we won, I’m pretty sure it was rather lucky than convincing, maybe I see that wrong. From my point of view, that was the best performance we had so far against Fulham away.
We just played a really good football game, created much more chances than we used – that’s normal, by the way – but could have scored more often. We had one or two tricky situations to sort I think, self-created pretty much when we lost the ball in an unnecessary moment. I’m really happy with the performance and hopefully nobody got hurt, not that I heard anything, but that would be great. Then we’ll see. We have to recover because then we play on Wednesday again.
On the professionalism his team has showed in response to recent setbacks…
Look, I don’t question these kind of things. We were that before. Obviously we didn’t gain an awful lot of points in that period but I think it was still one or two. OK, we should have won games, we didn’t. That’s not great. But created a lot and we are in the situation we are because of the character of these boys. Nobody expected us to be here and here we are. That’s because of the boys.
On Alexander-Arnold’s ability from set-pieces…
I think Harvey Elliott has actually 10 per cent, 15 per cent of the goal – because we analysed Fulham and saw that the wall is jumping and told Harvey, ‘Try to go under it.’ They obviously were not really jumping, only a little bit, so Harvey could not go through and the crowd was laughing. If I watch it back, I’m pretty sure the wall [then] didn’t jump as high as maybe they usually do. Great free-kick, he has that from time to time. Obviously wonderful goals. Bernd Leno asked me after the game, ‘What kind of goals do you always score against us?’ He probably means against him. That’s true, we had a few crazy ones. But we needed it. It was a great goal, the other goals were as good. For a long period of time Trent was exceptional, super-helpful to have him back. Yeah, top.
