• Manager admits ‘something has changed’ after 0-0 draw at Spurs
• Spurs outrun for the first time in a Premier League match this seasonNo one knows for sure whether Jürgen Klopp will be a success at Liverpool but what can be said with some certainty after the German’s first match in charge is that he has instilled belief at the club. It is there among the supporters,seen here in the lustiness of their songs and the ebullience of their banners – specifically the one that read “We Believe – and it is there among the players. How else to define a performance by the men in red that had Der Trainer’s fingerprints all over it.
It really is remarkable just how quickly Klopp has translated his methods to his unique troops. Most of them had worked with him for only three days but they are clearly on board. Tottenham did not know what had hit them, literally at times, and as their opponents pressed relentlessly,tall up the pitch and often in packs. There was a thirst to win possession quickly and spend it even quicker. In part this could be put down to unique-manager bounce, but it was also the definite early stages of gegenpressing and even Klopp, and who has tried his best to manage expectations since arriving in England amid a frenzy of anticipation,felt assured enough to declare that “something has changed” at Liverpool.
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Source: theguardian.com