Jurgen Klopp made a strange choice when discussing his favourite Liverpool goal ever.
Jurgen Klopp made a strange choice when discussing his favourite Liverpool goal ever.
The Anfield club’s 3-1 victory over bottom side Sheffield United on Thursday has seen Jurgen Klopp’s side return to the Premier League summit.
Liverpool sit two points ahead of Arsenal while they have a three-point lead over defending champions Manchester City with just eight games remaining.
The Merseyside outfit took the lead in the first half after goalkeeper Ivo Grbic’s clearance blasted against the on-rushing Darwin Nunez and trickled into the net.
However Sheffield United hit back after Gustavo Hamer’s wayward strike hit Conor Bradley and deflected into the Liverpool goal.
But in the final 15 minutes, Alexis Mac Allister lashed home a strike into the top corner to spark scenes of joy and relief across Anfield. Cody Gakpo then rounded off the victory by nodding home a third from a fit-again Andy Robertson cross.
When making his post-match comments to TNT Sport, Klopp admitted that Nunez’s opener, which was as comical as it was calamitous for Sheffield United, was among his favourite ever goals.
The Liverpool boss said: “We scored one of my favourite goals ever for 1-0.
“A striker from time to time needs that kind of thing. I ask [Nunez] quite a lot to press the opponent and it’s pretty rare you get close enough to get this kind of block.
“We controlled the game but there are different ways to control again and today was not the right one. Not enough creating.
“I don’t expect we have chance after chance after chance but you have to accelerate, speed up, underlap and overlap, and that’s what we did [after 60 minutes].
“The game was a difficult one to get rhythm but we should have had a better rhythm than we had. In the end, all good. Probably all the other games are now different, especially the next one.”
On Sunday Liverpool travel to Old Trafford to take on bitter rivals Manchester United. A day earlier Arsenal will face Brighton and Hove Albion and Manchester City will travel to Selhurst Park to play Crystal Palace in the 12:30 kick-off.
