Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted that he is not interested in sending any messages to Liverpool’s Premier League title rivals and is only concerned with winning games at the moment.
The Reds were far from their brilliant best against south London club Crystal Palace on Saturday but still managed their 12th win in 13 league games this season thanks to Brazilian forward Roberto Firmino’s late strike.
It had looked like Liverpool would be held to a draw when English winger Wilfried Zaha canceled out Senegalese superstar Sadio Mane’s opening goal with eight minutes remaining on the clock but Firmino popped up in the 85th minute to seal a victory that maintains their eight-point lead at the summit of the Premier League table.
And following a hard fought triumph at Selhurst Park, the 52 year old Reds boss stated that he is not interested in sending out any messages to Manchester City or the rest of the Premier League teams, “It is exceptional to have 37 points after 13 games, You can’t have them by winning brilliant games every time. We had a couple of them but you can’t always win them. We aren’t here to send messages; we just want to get results.”
Roy Hodgson’s team was comfortably the better side in the opening 45 minutes but Liverpool improved markedly in the second half, much to Klopp’s delight. But Klopp also concluded by saying that he was not surprised by the way the hosts began the game as it was a difficult place to come and play football because the fans make the atmosphere really vibrant, “I’m not surprised by how the game went. We know it’s a tough place to come; the atmosphere is good. They don’t give up. We knew at half-time that we had to do better. We weren’t brilliant but we were ready to fight for the result.”
