JURGEN KLOPP has his team playing to a different beat these days – one that is making sweet music as opposed to the heavy rock of old.
The Liverpool boss looked pleased as punch following this cruise to victory and he was right to look so happy after Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez – and of course Mo Salah – plundered the goals.
For just ten league games into what the German calls Liverpool 2.0 his side is not only re-built but re-charged and thanks especially to the flair of Dominic Szoboszlai is one playing with a belief that many in the Kop last season feared might have gone for good.
This was fun to watch, at least for the German and supporters beginning to believe again.
Steve Cooper’s side never really had a chance of matching the pizazz and panache of a side that under Klopp’s guidance has gone from gegenpressing to gung–ho.
Then again Cooper effectively set his team up as sitting ducks by going for a back five and sure enough Klopp’s men loaded the gun and kept on firing.
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One reason why the Forest boss decided on containment was the loss of main striker Chris Wood to a hamstring injury which will keep him out for at least six weeks.
Yet his club hadn’t won on a visit to the red half of Merseyside since 1969 and the grand old days of Brian Clough.
He really had nothing to lose in at least trying to get cheeky about things but his have-and-hold tactic was in reality never going to work.
Klopp’s side hadn’t lost a Prem game at Anfield in the calendar year since Leeds United left with a 2-1 win and there was never really a doubt in the German’s mind that that unbeaten sequence would not be extended.
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