Jurgen Klopp hailed Liverpool’s academy graduates as his aspect beat Norwich Metropolis 5-2 in an entertaining FA Cup contest at Anfield.
It was a memorable afternoon for the Liverpool academy as a number of homegrown stars shone, with teenager James McConnell establishing fellow academy graduate Curtis Jones for the opener, on his first senior begin.
Ben Gibson headed in an equaliser for Norwich towards the run of play, however Darwin Nunez restored the Reds’ benefit with a composed end. Diogo Jota continued his nice type with improbable end to make it three, and substitute Virgil van Dijk headed in a fourth from a set piece.
Norwich scored a second after a spectacular effort from Borja Sainz, earlier than Liverpool wrapped up their win in stoppage time by Ryan Gravenberch’s close-range header.
“Good game, cup game, Norwich had their moments and scored wonderful goals but they did well,” Klopp mirrored to ITV.
“Their second goal was exceptional, really good finish. Our goals were wonderful, we played well from the beginning. Four of our five goals were set up by academy graduates which was really cool so only positives from the game.”
Klopp opened up on the affect of the membership’s academy graduates, with Curtis Jones persevering with his robust current type and Conor Bradley and James McConnell recording assists in spectacular particular person outings.
“Curtis is in an ideal second for us, tremendous vital in numerous departments. He’s an excellent participant however he's a job mannequin as nicely arising by the academy.
“All of our guys coming up through the academy are good guys who can play football. If Curtis Jones can learn defending, everyone can learn defending. Offensive play, this high press which he is setting for us. If he can do it everybody can do it and you see that James [McConnell] played a super game today, you see it with all the kids, Bobby [Clark] when we brought him on recently. It’s the same. They are all really good footballers. they make these steps and Curtis shows how it goes so I am really happy about that.”
Klopp acquired a rapturous welcome at Anfield after it was introduced the German will step down from his position as Liverpool supervisor on the finish of the season.
On the reception, he added: “It was great for the fans to show their love to me and we need an atmosphere on the pitch. We need the crowd and for them not to think about the manager. We need to forget it for a while and go for each opponent like crazy and that’s what we want to do and the next chance is on Wednesday.”
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