Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admitted his relief after Monday’s 2-0 win over Everton while he was delighted to see Cody Gakpo net his first goal for the club.
Gakpo, who Liverpool signed from PSV Eindhoven in January, added their second goal in the 49th minute after Mohamed Salah had opened the scoring in the first half. That goal was Salah’s first of this calendar year.
“A good performance as well,” Klopp said when asked about Gakpo’s first goal. “The way he set up the chance for Darwin [Nunez], he had other moments like this where he came out under pressure and then there was a foul and we got a free-kick.
“He did extremely well under massive pressure in the centre. In the end, it was not the most difficult goal he ever scored, but it is exactly the goal each striker is dreaming of when it didn’t happen for a while, probably.
“Both goals were, for both players, really important. The next one who could have needed something like that is probably Darwin; the chance he had was a really good one. Anyway, it was obviously Darwin with an insane run for the first goal and a super pass.”
The result eases some of the pressure on Klopp’s side who hadn’t won in their previous four league games, moving above Chelsea into ninth, while also beating their Merseyside neighbours.
“Relieved,” Klopp said. “Yeah, that’s it, that was the main feeling since the final whistle. Happy with the performance. It was necessary that we played tonight the game we wanted to play and not the game Everton wants to play.
“You cannot avoid that all the time but I think they didnt have an extremely high number of set-pieces, so with all the aggressiveness you have to show you have to make sure you dont overdo it because each set-piece is a massive threat and something they want to have, and I thought we did that really well.”
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