02 March,2021 06:54 AM IST | Sheffield | AFP
Liverpool’s goal-scorer Curtis Jones controls the ball during an EPL match against Sheffield on Sunday. Pic/AFP
Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool can prove the doubters that have written their season off wrong after snapping a four-game Premier League losing streak to win 2-0 at Sheffield United on Sunday.
The English champions' title defence has been decimated by injuries and they face a battle just to qualify for next season's Champions League via a Top 4 finish. Klopp's men remain in sixth, but are now just two points behind fourth-placed West Ham and can leapfrog Chelsea in fifth when the Blues visit Anfield on Thursday.
"Plenty of people have written us off. That's fine," said Klopp.
"With all the problems we have had we're still around the exciting places." Captain Jordan Henderson has been added to Liverpool's long-term injury list, while goalkeeper Alisson Becker was absent after he lost his father to a swimming accident in Brazil this week.
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But the Championship-bound Blades proved the perfect opponents for Klopp's men to restore some confidence as Curtis Jones's second-half strike and Kean Bryan's own goal got the Reds back to winning ways. "This was about us showing we're still there," added Klopp. "We play Chelsea on Thursday, we have to show it again. We have to win football games, we know that. There's no way into the Champions League without results."
With Alisson's understudy Caoimhin Kelleher also absent due to injury, Liverpool's third-choice goalkeeper Adrian started in the Premier League for the first time since conceding nine goals in two games in October to Aston Villa and Everton. However, the much-maligned Spaniard made an important early save to prevent David McGoldrick giving Sheffield United a shock lead.
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