Liverpool’s form continued on Wednesday night when they narrowly beat Sheffield United in their Premier League clash at Bramall Lane. The Reds were heavy favourites to defeat the Premier League’s bottom team, who had just suffered a humiliating 5-0 defeat to Burnley a few days earlier. .
But, despite the contrasting fortunes between the two teams this season, Liverpool have not done things their way in South Yorkshire. It took 37 minutes for Jurgen Klopp’s side to break the deadlock when Virgil van Dijk deftly headed home a Trent Alexander-Arnold corner. .
Liverpool had much of the play for the remainder of the game but they struggled to add to their advantage. They finally clinched all three points in the fourth minute of stoppage-time when Dominik Szoboszlai found the top corner after some good work from Darwin Nunez.
Klopp is said to be very happy with the win, but not everything is smiling in his post-match interview with Amazon Prime Video Sport. The German coach was not at all inspired by the presenter’s comments.
It’s no secret that Klopp is a fan of games that start at 12:30p. m. on Saturdays. He has continually expressed his frustration that Liverpool have to play at this time slot right after a break abroad, at most recently in November.
Liverpool’s next game will be on Saturday at 12. 30pm, when they head to south London to face Crystal Palace. Referring to the game, the presenter joked that it was his “favorite time to start the game”. This was not at all well received by Klopp, who replied:
The presenter then tried to protect himself and claimed that he was not looking to be disrespectful. Klopp wasn’t bothered when he replied:
“You were [disrespectful] already. You can say what you want. But I can’t say what I want because that would be very different.”
Liverpool won any of their games at the start of the month and are now second in the Premier League. After the game, Van Dijk expressed his delight at his team’s progress. He said, according to Liverpool’s official website: