Victory Against Huddersfield Town Is A Big Relief – Klopp

Jurgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Huddersfield Town on Saturday was a “big relief” after last weekend’s severe defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.

Second-half goals from Daniel Sturridge, Roberto Firmino and Georginio Wijnaldum propelled Liverpool to a comfortable victory over newly promoted side at Anfield.

Klopp said: “We had not the best week as you can imagine — it’s not that we don’t take the situation really seriously, it’s really important for us.

“Tottenham was the worst game we’ve played in this season so far and that you cannot ignore it, but you have to work with it and that’s what we did. It can happen, especially with the style Huddersfield played today — a rather defensive style and we were a little bit stiff.

“It was not fluent, we had too many players behind the ball, it was clear we wanted to give them no opportunity for counter-attack and stuff like this, but you don’t need seven players behind the ball to protect the counter-attack.

“That’s how it looked a little bit in the first half, so it was not too difficult to fix at half-time.

“We [worked on] it during the week already — the positioning where we have to be so it’s more difficult for any opponent to defend it.

“You could see immediately in the second half really, we had more players between the decisive lines and so it was more difficult for Huddersfield to defend.

“We had more chances, but it’s a big relief, to be honest, because the pressure was there. There is no doubt about that.

“I could hear that people didn’t like the first half too much, I know it’s hard work but in the end probably nobody remembers the first half because the second half was really much better.

“It helped a lot today — three goals, three points, clean sheet, very, very important.”