Recapping Liverpool’s five opening games of the new season – including highlight videos
So far this season, Liverpool have experienced more enjoyment than frustration. Ignoring one major blip, we’ve had a rather successful start to Jurgen Klopp’s first full season.
It’s pretty apparent that Klopp’s focus on team ethic has really hit home. For the first time in years the likes of Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge need to actually fight for their places in the side.
The manager’s aim of improving our attacking play seems successful, with players all over the pitch contributing with goals. I think it’s already clear he’s targeting our defence too. Of course he’ll have been trying to improve all aspects, but with our attackers performing I think keeping goals out is the new focus.
Liverpool currently sit 6th in the Premier League – tied on points with 5th and 4th. We’re a point higher than rivals Manchester United, but three points behind Everton.
In our run of fixtures, we’ve already beaten Arsenal and Chelsea away from home, grabbing a point from Tottenham away too. We demolished the Champions Leicester City on our first league game at Anfield this season, and with those four results we can be pretty happy.
Perhaps we’d have liked to win the game against Spurs, but the point was a good one nonetheless. So four games, 10 points. Where did it all go wrong? Why aren’t we tied with Everton?
Well, in typical Liverpool fashion we threw the game against Burnley away from home. The newly promoted side sat deep and rustled us. I’m still not over it. Whats even more worrying is that we’re still to play a ‘poor’ team in the Premier League following the Burnley game – so we might just lose against Hull next weekend.
Let’s recap those first 5 matches.