Liverpool have taken one step nearer to sending Jurgen Klopp off into the solar with one other Premier League title to his title.
The Reds have been by no means actually troubled by Brentford on Saturday lunchtime because the Bees failed to put a glove on Klopp’s aspect. Liverpool have been removed from their finest, however they gave the impression to be going by the motions as they brushed apart the London-based aspect, profitable 4-1.
And as Liverpool, briefly, lengthen their hole on the high of the Premier League desk to Manchester City, Daily Star Sport has a have a look at what Klopp received proper on the Gtech Community Stadium.
Trusting Darwin Nunez
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Imagine telling a Liverpool followers this time final season Darwin Nunez can be placing up the numbers he’s now. Save for a choose few, most can be shaking their heads in disbelief.
However, Nunez was as soon as once more magnificent for the Reds on Saturday lunchtime, along with his dinked end breaking the impasse on the Gtech Community Stadium. Klopp has nurtured Nunez’s improvement to perfection – along with his spell away from the starters lighting the hearth that he wanted.
The Uruguayan is sort of undroppable at this level, as he begins to pay again his lofty switch charge.
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The Conor Bradley revolution
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Conor Bradley was in all places, once more, on Saturday.
Starting out as a full-back, Bradley was drifting into the midfield in a manner that we have now grown so accustomed to seeing from Trent Alexander-Arnold. “He’s not just a marauding fullback. He’s a proper all round footballer who plays fullback. It’s incredible,” one fan noticed.
“It’s mad how Conor Bradley has played 10 games and his influences the game like he’s started 100+ already,” a second added. While extra Liverpool followers joked he deserves the Ballon d’Or.
Keeping their heads
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Tensions risked boiling over at half-time, as Liverpool suffered two enormous blows mere minutes aside. With a midfield that’s already stretched skinny, Curtis Jones went down after 34 minutes clutching his ankle and was unable to hold on.
Jota then left the sector holding in his knee. Klopp was sad with the heavy handed tackles, however he did not let the tackles rustle him or his crew because the Reds managed the state of affairs completely.
The Reds responded throughout the second-half as Alexis Mac Allister discovered the web within the fifty fifth minute, earlier than Mohamed Salah put the outcome past any doubt 12 minutes later.
Utilising the counter assault
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It’s the Premier League’s worst saved secret that Liverpool are lethal on the counter-attack – and Brentford’s type of play opened them as much as potential exposer from the Reds.
Liverpool’s first objective was precisely that, Virgil van Dijk hammered the ball up area, the place Jota’s magnificent cushioned header performed the ball within the course of Nunez.
The Reds’ ultimate objective additionally got here with gamers flying forwards, as Brentford, who have been left stretched, could not cease Cody Gakpo from netting Liverpool’s fourth.