A Liverpool reaction
that put a worrisome face in the Citizens Boss Pep Guardiola, sitting in the stands
at Anfield and seeing how his former Bundesliga foe Jürgen Klopp and his Boys
made this match looked a bit easy.
With the motto in the
stands of the Kop that states, “You never walk alone”, the Reds put a display
of one of the utmost of footballs with an inspired Firminho, Sturridge and Lallana
that elevated their club to a grand win.
This win situates the
Merseyside Boys to a close six-point chase towards the top, held currently by the
unbeatable Antonio Conte’s Chelsea Blues.
You state why was Pep
at the stands in the colossus of Merseyside, one simple reason to observe his
foes for next week New Year’s Eve match against Liverpool, considered this
match totally with the status of a Derby.
Still this match was
not an easy enterprise for the Reds and playing with such caution against a
rival that many can state as easy, at the end the locals did not trust their instincts
and played a wonderful football.
From start to finish,
the Reds saw how the Stoke City squad came prepared to play the role of
spoilers and with an early goal, the Potters opened the hostilities in the 12th
minute with a score from their man upfront Jonathan Walters.
That did early goal and
being behind the first twelve minutes deterred the reds of putting in display their
new football instituted by Manager Kloop and in the 34th minute the
response from the hosts was sealed by Adam
Llallana in the 34th minute.
No later than ten
minutes when the flying Brazilian Roberto Firminho put the scores ahead in the
44th minute with a nice shoot for the 2-1 and going to intermission
with a one goal lead over the visiting Potters.
As the second half
started, the heat was on for the visitors and in the 57th when one
of its midfielders in Giannelli Imbula score an own goal and the Reds continuance
of dominating the match, their lead extended to 3-1.
Eleven minutes after,
it’s when Daniel Sturridge coming as a substitute for forward Divock Origi,
sealed the deal with the final goal to send all of Anfield into a frenzy.
Once again the wisdom
of Kloop was evident after using his traditional 4-3-3 formation in contrast of
the Potters Boss Hughes putting just three defenders in a 3-5-2 that at the end
saw a barrage of errors and making it easy for the Reds strikers.
Now the goal for the Reds
Boss is to continue his successful run but with an upcoming challenge that can
translate into a win to close with a bang the first, half of Premiership and
over the Sky Blues will be an awesome feat.
From now on, the aim
of the Liverpool squad is to finish strong from the start of 2017 until the
league conclusion in May with the hopes of netting a league shield, but the way
the Blues are playing this campaign to decide at the end.
Despite the Potters
reactions on and on during the match, the outlook of the match was already
decided by the locals and by sheer dominance in the front and its backfield fab
four defended overzealous its goal
posts.
Come next week and
closing this 2016 of Premiership action, the Merseyside Derby will be the
highlight in Premiership, once again Klopp and Guardiola meet again since their
last time these had a face off in April 2015.
The heat is on for
both of these gladiators as their squads are in need of a win and keep a close pace
on the league leaders Chelsea and looking forward to a stumble from the
Londoners and these can make a leap towards the coveted league top.
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