Reds manager Jurgen Klopp has stated that he wants Liverpool to use last weekend’s 3-1 win over Manchester City as only the start for Liverpool to chase down their first league title in 30 years.
Spectacular goals from Fabinho, Mohamed Salah, and Sadio Mane secured the three points for Liverpool against the reigning champions at Anfield on Sunday and opened up an eight-point advantage at the summit of the Premier League table.
Liverpool is now nine points better off than Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, having won 11 of their 12 league outings so far this season and are still the only club which is unbeaten in England.
The European champions tallied up 97 points last season and lost only one game which was admittedly against Manchester City but that was still not enough for Liverpool to win the Premiership as the blue half of Manchester pipped them by a solitary point.
But Liverpool has bettered their start this season and German boss Jurgen Klopp believes such form is “pretty much impossible” and knows that there a long way to go in a title race that still includes nearest challengers Leicester City and Chelsea that are in 2nd and 3rd place level on points.
With just under one third of the season completed, the 52-year-old Klopp stated that he is extremely proud of his team until now but this is only the start, “It’s just the start, that’s how it is, everybody knows that, If you would have told me that you can have 34 points [at this stage of the season], wow! It’s pretty much impossible but we did it. But now the boys go for the last international break of the year. They have to come back healthy. You saw it how intense it was [against City].
Klopp further explained that he hoped most of his players return from the international break fit and healthy, “Hopefully they all come back healthy and then we go to Crystal Palace. I think the last games are somewhere on the planet on Tuesday in the week that we play on Saturday against Crystal Palace. So they will fly back on Wednesday, Thursday have a recovery session and Friday, Saturday, ‘Hello, Crystal Palace!’.
