It fits this strange end of the season with hygiene concepts, empty stadiums and fan chants from the hard drive that the FC Liverpool won his first championship since 1990 not on the grass, but was chosen as the title holder at the television evening. To Manchester Citys Defeat at Football Club">FC Chelsea on Thursday (June 26th, 2020) is also mathematically certain, which has been inevitable since Christmas at the latest, namely that coach Jürgen Klopp is leaving the club Merseyside this season relieved from waiting for the title for 30 years.
The special circumstances surrounding the Corona pandemic cannot detract from Liverpool’s performance, although some fans of competing clubs see it that way. The team plays their second masterful season in a row. Already in the past season the “Reds“only once, but in the end it was only enough to be runner-up behind Manchester City. This season there is no competitor who can even keep up with the team.
Only one loss in 31 games
31 games, 28 wins, only one defeat, is Liverpool’s balance sheet in the current campaign. With the 4-0 on Wednesday against Crystal Palace At the first home game after the lockdown, the team had once again shown that they are a deserved champion. A day later she was too. One for the history books. With seven games remaining, Liverpool is the earliest title holder in England, and the team can break the points record Manchester City set two years ago. By winning the Champions League last season, Liverpool is back in the circle of the international elite, but it is only because of the championship that has been missing for so long that happiness is perfect for the red community. Four and a half years after his arrival at the Anfield Road Klopp’s work is completed.
When the former Borussia Dortmund coach came to the north-west of England in autumn 2015, the club was in a deep identity crisis, disillusioned with the next narrowly missed title the previous year and sportily gutted after the departure of striker Luis Suárez FC Barcelona. Klopp completely rebuilt the team in the years that followed. From the starting eleven on his debut, a 0-0 at Tottenham Hotspur, today only James Milner is a support of the team. The coach has recognized which players are needed for which position and has gradually filled the positions with the ideal candidates.
A lot of money spent under Klopp
For this purpose, the club has spent a lot of money, especially for goalkeeper Alisson, Virgil Van Dijk and Fabinho, who have raised the team to a masterly level. But a few bargains also play a key role in the success, especially the full-backs Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold. They show Klopp’s ability to get the most out of the staff entrusted to him. Perhaps the coach’s most impressive achievement on Anfield Road is that he endowed his professionals with limitless confidence, with a mentality that only large teams have.
For a long time, the “Reds” were known for their unstable mood, the players regularly collapsed under the burden of history. Klopp’s team, on the other hand, keeps fighting back even in hopeless situations, such as 4: 3 (after 1: 3) against Dortmund in the Europa League in its first season or 4: 0 (after 0: 3 in the first leg) in the Champions League League semi-final against Barcelona in the past season. The current campaign is characterized by games in which Liverpool struggles but almost always gets the desired result, often thanks to late goals. Klopp has established a “Keep going!” Mentality on Anfield Road.
Klopp took the fans along
Away from the grass, the coach has managed to revive the club’s greatest asset, namely the passion of the public. He took the fans with him from day one. He told them that they were part of the whole thing and called them to duty when he complained early in his time in Liverpool that the spectators were going home before the final whistle. It is thanks to Klopp that the stadium is now a fortress again, that the atmosphere at big games corresponds to the cliché of the Anfield myth. Just like Liverpool’s football resurrection.
Stand: 26.06.2020, 08:05
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