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“We need to become the team that nobody wants to play against again.”
Jürgen Klopp has often simplified his time in Liverpool, returning things to their most basic state and building from there. It’s the modus operandi of your Liverpool team: how good they are for a year is defined by how good they are for a month, a week, a fleeting moment.
Think of all the clips of Jordan Henderson circulating this week. By how much you admire the passion and notice how much those individual moments, the 50/50, recovery runs and forehand passes mean. This is what the manager means when he says it:
• Liverpool is the team West Ham didn’t want to play tonight because of the way they decided when to turn the gears. What was missing before in terms of lack of goals is now rectified by eight in the last three. That allows patience without panic. Liverpool were content to win so late by winning the right wing.
• Liverpool is the team West Ham didn’t want to play tonight because of the way they He made the right substitutions at the right time, with the right personnel. While many were sad to see James Milner leave, Curtis Jones was magnificent in the way he found space and injected energy into the ball. No sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino in the lineup, this was another example that Liverpool’s problems are slowly leaving them.
• Liverpool is the team West Ham didn’t want to play tonight because of the way they he completed 55 ball recoveries and lost five aerial duels. These two things are interconnected by the number of fumbles Liverpool picked up in midfield. The shape was mentioned as a diamond, but it was much more fluid, with players ready to recover, which they did expertly. This allowed for a sense of control that the team never lost sight of.
• Liverpool is the team West Ham didn’t want to play tonight because of the way they stopped Declan Rice and Tomas Soucek from getting the ball into West Ham’s attacking players. Each player had fewer than 90 percent completions and each had four cut forward passes during the game. Liverpool stopped West Ham at the fountain.
• Liverpool is the team West Ham didn’t want to play tonight because of the way they they were, for the second time in a week, the best version of themselves. This is important because it is the team we know – that’s how we recognize them. This coach has told us that his team fights, he has told us that his team does not despair and he has told us that they earn the right in every game by playing.
This week all that has returned. Liverpool were the team nobody wants to play against, just ask David Moyes and José Mourinho.
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