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Jürgen Klopp outlines why Liverpool can still place in the top four.
Jurgen Klopp has insisted his Liverpool side are still in the fight for a top-four finish this season.
The Reds are presently seventh in the Premier League standings, nine points behind fourth-placed Tottenham but with two games in hand, but a run of only three wins in their previous 11 games in all competitions has highlighted worries about Liverpool’s consistency.
It’s a similar situation to Liverpool’s injury-plagued 2020/21 season when a run of seven victories in nine games to conclude the season propelled them to third place despite being written off months earlier.
Asked whether memories of that unlikely accomplishment from two years ago can help his side this time around, Klopp admitted: “It helps because it was us so you don’t have to tell them [the players] a story of another club but we have a lot of stories to tell of what went really well in the last few years, of long winning streaks.
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“History is not allowed to hinder you but also you cannot rely on what you have done before. We have to be ready to go and do it because every game is different.
“You have an opponent who wants the points as well and we have to go against that and we have to create, we have to attack, we have to defend, we have to protect and I know the boys can do that.
“We have to enjoy what we are doing and I really think we are ready – if there is a club that can do it I really think it is us. I really think that because all of the things we have achieved in these last years we achieved together. Nothing would have happened without the team or without the crowd.”
Wolves will visit Liverpool on Wednesday, and then on Sunday, Manchester United will be visiting Anfield as part of Liverpool’s effort to catch up in the column of games played.