Southampton boss Hasenhuttl: Liverpool now returning to best | OneFootball

Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl believes Liverpool are back to their best under Jurgen Klopp.

The Austrian takes his team to Anfield on Saturday afternoon and feels the free-scoring hosts – who have hit a league-high 35 goals this season – are a far more dangerous proposition than earlier this year when Saints won.

"It is always a pleasure for to play against a team of Jurgen and it is always one of the biggest challenges you can imagine in football, it is always super tough," said Hasenhuttl.

"When you see Liverpool in the moment, they're coming back to their best shape, their biggest strength. It seems to me that they are playing again like in the season when they became champions.

"Last season it seems to me – we are discussing about a high level still – they haven't been that hungry against the ball, not that quick in their transition, not that quick in their play like they are doing again this season.

"I don't know what they changed in the summer but it seems they have found their identity back and it makes it very difficult to take something against such a side.

"But it is not impossible – I've seen Brighton take a point after being two down (a 2-2 draw on October 30) but 99 out of 100 games, if you're 2-0 down (away to Liverpool) you lose this game."