Jurgen Klopp has come up and given his players an easy formula to follow to ensure Liverpool make progress from their tough Champions League group. The Reds were 4-0 victors over Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday evening, with the result putting Liverpool on top of Group C after the other game ended in a 2-2 draw between Paris St Germain and Napoli.
Klopp, who hopes the win will ensure the critics get off Mo Salah’s back, know two wins against Red Star are an absolute minimum requirement if the Reds are to qualify to the knockout stages.
He said: “It was just a good football game and they could finish the situations because we had the right movement in the right moment, we had the right passes, we had the right formation.
“You cannot win a game 4-0 if most of the things are not really good and tonight most of the things were really good.
“This group obviously stays exciting until the end, that was I thought pretty clear immediately after the draw, but you cannot do more than win your own games, and then the situation changes in your favour. That happens tonight but it doesn’t say too much about the group.”
Liverpool face Red Star Belgrade away in Serbia in their next game, with the match presenting a real opportunity for the Reds to stamp their mark on the group and leave Napoli and PSG to scrap it out for the final place.
Liverpool were still able to produce enough quality to comfortably pick up the three points and, with PSG and Napoli drawing 2-2, they now top the group with six points, one more than Napoli and two ahead of the French champions.
It was the Shaqiri who played a cute pass down the flank for Andy Robertson to run onto and his cross found Firmino for the opener in the 20th minute.
Firmino’s fast feet saw him shift the ball into space and his shot rippled the net via a deflection.