It's not the goals, this is what Klopp is demanding from Darwin Nunez to make him a starter

In the absence of Mohamed Salah, who has been called up by Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations, the media's focus is on the goalscoring contribution of the strikers, including Luis Diaz himself and Uruguay's Darwin Nunez, who added two assists in Wednesday's home win. After the game, manager Jürgen Klopp was bombarded with questions about the performance of his strikers and what Nunez is contributing with more assists than goals in the current campaign.

Klopp praised him and explained what his criteria are when it comes to choosing the starters, more precisely those who make up the starting trident in which Luis Diaz has been immovable in the absence of Salah. "(Darwin) plays exceptionally, I have to say that. There are so many things I really love about the game. The first year was the year of adaptation and he scored here and there. But now his contribution in games... he would have started tonight but he had cramp in the last game, so three days later you don't start a player," he said.

Klopp raised his voice for his players and said the coaching staff's decision is clear when it comes to having an attacking trio available before every game. "The guys don't start or don't start because they score or don't score. My faith and trust in them is infinite, as long as they behave correctly, because they simply deserve it for the effort they put in," he said.

Klopp raised his voice

"That you can bring Cody and Darwin off the bench, that's a proper change. And also we changed the system, the formation and the set-up. All of a sudden, the high pressure wasn't organised anymore, we had problems there, we tried to fix that from the outside and all of a sudden the protection wasn't there because we changed a couple of things. But the offensive situations were much better, that's good, that's a big part of it," he explained.