Liverpool could be one of the struggling league sides this season and its new boss Jurgen Klopp is also feeling the pressure of being at the top of highly demotivated side hence he is not exaggeratedly reacting after his first game mentoring the Anfield side. Reds could not break its jinx in the Tottenham as well and game ended with 0-0 score on the board, however, the good thing about the game is Liverpool players performed quite confidently throughout the match and they did never look like someone passing through drought of victories this English topflight. Divock Origi, who was substituted in place of injured Daniel Sturridge, was the first one to explore a goal hitting opportunity in the first ten minutes itself but Tottenham defense was firmed enough to neutralize the shot and thereafter it was just a matter of edging psychologically over each other and no one could triumph that mind game. Talking about the game and how his side performed in the debut English game, 48-year-old German said in an interview, “It was an open game, we had our chances, they had theirs which were obviously better, but if we can play better football we will be stronger next time.
“We were a little but nervous when we had the ball and the pace was frantic. We need to improve but after three days I’m happy, I’m completely satisfied with a 0-0 draw. It was a good first step and I can work with the performance. The first 20 minutes of the game I didn’t have much influence on the game because the crowd were loud and the players started well. But when the players needed some encouragement I was there, but I was not unhappy. A draw is not by dream result, but it is okay.”
The new Anfield boss is taking the first game as the learning platform for himself where he could study crucial things to succeed in the league soccer which is undoubtedly the toughest to survive in. Generally, Germans bosses are not famous to have been successful on English duty and Klopp wants to break this theory by achieving an impressing success in his first English season, he added, “It was a very important game, because we can now work with this and show the players what was good and what was not so good and we can take the next step.”
