Is it enough for a happy ending?: Klopp’s FC Liverpool plays like they’re intoxicated

Is there still a happy ending?
Klopp’s Liverpool FC is playing in a frenzy

05/16/2023 06:06 am

Liverpool FC increase their chances of qualifying for the Champions League again. Thanks to a clear victory at relegation candidate Leicester City, coach Jürgen Klopp’s team is only one point behind third-placed Newcastle United. But there are only two game days left.

With their seventh win in a row, Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool have kept their small chance of returning to the Champions League. The Reds won their third-to-last game of the season in the English Premier League at Leicester City 3-0 (2-0), but as fifth in the table they still have to hope for blunders from the competition. The penultimate Leicester, on the other hand, is threatened with relegation seven years after the sensations championship.

A double strike from Curtis Jones (33’/36′) put the Klopp team on the road to victory before the break. The 22-year-old is just the second Liverpool-born player with a Premier League brace for the Reds after Robbie Fowler. Coach Klopp said of his match winner: “He’s improved a lot. But you mustn’t forget that he’s still a young guy and he played great games for us a year or two ago. Then he had a difficult phase with injuries .”

The unstoppable full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold (71st) made everything clear. When asked if it was a perfect away game, Klopp replied: “No, not that. But it was good.” It wasn’t always that way this season. In the meantime, the team had sunk into the gray midfield of the league and didn’t seem as if they could free themselves from the predicament. A season without a European Cup threatened. It is a surprise that the premier class is within reach again.

With 65 points, the Klopp team has already secured participation in the Europa League, but wants more. Both Newcastle United (3rd) and Manchester United (4th) have just one more point on their account, but they still have a game to play. For Leicester, on the other hand, things are getting tight after just one win in their last 14 league games. Two games before the end, the gap to the saving bank is two points, after nine years without a break in the Premier League there is a risk of returning to the House of Commons.