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·18 January 2021

​Klopp encouraged by Liverpool 'fight' amidst form slump

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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is pleased with the way his players are fighting through a difficult moment.

The Reds have now gone three Premier League games without scoring a goal, and find their title challenge in some jeopardy.


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But they battled for a 0-0 draw with Manchester United at home, and face Tottenham next.

Klopp is pleased with the response he is getting from his players, despite the lack of goals.

He told reporters: "I cannot decide how you look at it, to be honest. I have no idea and I cannot decide how people look at it. I know that football fans in general are not the most patient species on this planet, so they want to win each football game. I'm not too different to that but I am long enough in the business to know that you have to go through more difficult periods as well.

"It's not the most difficult in my life – not even close to it. So it's just a situation where we play football and have had injuries, still have injuries but got used to the injuries we had in the long term and now players coming back and all that stuff. So, Thiago played today a great game, a really good game, and I think it was his second start for us, so there's space for improvement like how we work together and all these kind of things. F

"or me it's not too important where we are in the moment, it's important that we have points and we are around this group.

"We spoke about the fight for the Champions League, so that's the most important thing and for that you need points. We have them and we are in the middle of a group of teams which fight for this spot and that's what we have to do.

"That's the job. It's not about, 'If we don't become champions, it's not fun anymore.' That's not like it is. We just fight for everything and I saw that tonight again. That's all I need."

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