Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp hailed the club record his side achieved tonight at the Stadion Ljudski vrt, and expressed pride in doing so. Klopp’s Reds thrashed Maribor 7-0 at their home stadium in Slovenia, and the margin of victory is a new benchmark in European competition for LFC.
It’s the new standard, and one that Klopp believes will be very difficult to someday eclipse.
“I was told immediately after the game, I had no idea actually,” Klopp said at his post match news conference.
“We spoke a few times about how the wonderful history of this club can sometimes feel like a backpack so it’s nice to write history, and it will probably be difficult to beat that,” he continued. “It’s quite rare that you win 7-0 but it shows again we did unbelievably well tonight.”
“I think Maribor was quite confident before the game because of different reasons because they are a very good team.”
It was not just a Liverpool record set by the men of Jurgen Klopp tonight- they also broke new ground in Maribor too.
“We could read the newspaper today here because my assistant can read the language, and I asked him: ‘What do they write?’ They were quite confident because an English team had never won in Maribor, so that’s obviously another thing that we did for the first time,” he said.
Next in UEFA Champions League group stage play, Liverpool will host Maribor for the Anfield leg in about two weeks time. After that, they travel to Sevilla on November 21 and host Spartak Moskva on December 6.
The Reds currently sit atop Group E, tied with Spartak for five points. However, LFC are number one, via goal differential, because their spectacular outburst today now gives them a +4 edge in goal differential over Spartak.
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