Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Here's Clyde. That's time of the shot early in the first half. Benteke, and reach it! Benteke scores!
And it's only taken some 23 seconds of the second half for Liverpool to make the breakthrough. Fastest goal in the second half of the Premier League this season, clocked actually at 22 seconds, ultimately. 17 attempts from Liverpool to Sunderland's eight. That 17, by the way, the most they've had in any away game this season, six of which on target to Sunderland's three.
Chapter 2: What was the significance of Benteke's early goal for Liverpool?
They had more of the ball as well. They used the ball differently to Sunderland. 84% short passes to Sunderland's 78 and 29 touches in the opposition area to Sunderland's 13. Two of which of those were in the first half. Venteke does it again. Let's hear from him, the man of the match, along with Adam Lallana, the man who made the goal with David Craig. Adam, Christian, congratulations.
Christian, two goals in two games for you. Is that the best end to your year possible?
No, I think I came to Liverpool to try to score a lot of goals and I'm in good shape and hopefully I can keep it up.
Your last two appearances were from the substitute bench. How important was it for you that you got a start tonight?
I think as a striker, when you start, you want to score, you want to help your teammates, and that's why I tried to do it tonight.
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Chapter 3: How did Liverpool's performance compare to Sunderland's during the match?
We won and we can be happy.
Adam, Christian got the all-important goal, but just how much did you mean the touch that led to that goal?
I don't think I meant it to go directly into Christian's path, but sometimes you need the rub of the green, especially when you come to a tough place like this. They're scrapping for every point. It could have been two or three at the end on the counter, we had a couple of chances, but it's a great result for us and hopefully we can push on and get another win Saturday.
After the performances against Watford and West Brom, did we see a more resolute Liverpool tonight?
I think so. The managers tried to drum it into us. Sometimes we've got to be a bit more dirtier, we've got to fight a bit more, play teams at their own game. Coming here is a difficult place to come and to get three points, we're delighted.
It puts you on the same points as Manchester United. People are still talking about them as title contenders, so are Liverpool title contenders.
Well, the league this year is strange, as everyone's been talking about. I think it's just important we take it game at a time and we just keep building. We've got players coming back fit hopefully soon as well. With all the games we've got, we're going to need the squad.
Boys, well done. Christian, you are the Barclays' man of the match. Adam, do the honours. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well done. Cheers. Thanks, mate. And perhaps slightly surprised, fifth 1-0 win of the season for Liverpool, more than any other side, incidentally.
If there was an element of fortune, Jamie, about the way the chance fell to Benteke, did Liverpool deserve it overall, do you feel?
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Chapter 4: What did Benteke say about his recent scoring form?
And in the second half, when they got their goal, you could see that they played a little bit better. I don't think it was an outstanding before. I think after the last result against Watford, it never was going to be. It was a case of just grinding this out. I think Adam Larner summed it up pretty well. Sometimes you've got to win dirty games. You've got to make it hard for other teams.
Yeah, he's very honest.
He didn't mean the touch. I don't think he did, no. We need to look at the start of the second half. Jamie and I mentioned just before half-time we wanted more from Ben Tekin. If you watch him here, just keep your eye on him. He's the one player that's alive all the time. He wants it there. His hand's up. He was always alive. And as that ball falls to him, he reacts much quicker than anybody else.
It's a fantastic finish. It really is. He just lifts it over to the goalkeeper as it comes out. And I thought that gave him a bit of confidence, Jamie, didn't it?
But the thing about that finish, it's instant. He doesn't have to think. That was a problem for him later on, as we saw, and last week against Leicester, when he went through towards the end. But look, it's really quick, and he finishes, and when he gets to that position, he can finish, if he doesn't have to think for too long.
Did you get the sense that he is still learning his role under Jurgen Klopp, if you like?
I think so, but I think in the first half we mentioned at half-time about it's not just his problem, it's Liverpool's problem how they use him and get the best from him. This is a perfect example when Coutinho picks that ball up now. Look at Benteke, pinning the centre-back on the edge of the box, that's where you want to get the ball into him. But they don't.
They come back out, play short passes. We've got those three number 10s. That's where you've got to use him, a powerful centre forward like that, get it into his feet. But this is the opposite. He's got to be on the side of the ball now, showing.
And we were watching Jurgen Klopp on the side of the pitch and he was so frustrated in that first half with Benteke's runs and his movement, the positions he was taking up, because a lot of the time he was in the wrong position.
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Chapter 5: How did Liverpool adjust their tactics in the second half?
He's unlucky, he's got six goals for Liverpool this year, three of them have been winning goals. He's got a problem with a manager, because I think that the last two games before today he hasn't started, and it's obvious that he fancies Origi more.
I think personally he's a better player than Origi, I think he's got more of an all-round game, but if Daniel Sturridge is fit, how do you get them all into your team? Can he, Jamie, become the answer for Jurgen Klopp, do you think?
When Jürgen Klopp came in, it really started the first game away at Spurs, and we highlighted the work he put in, and that's what Jürgen Klopp wants. We know what type of... What he wants from his players, we know that. We knew that from Dortmund. And you're looking at Ben Teche at Villa, you're thinking, great goal-scoring record, but he's not that type of player.
So he gives Klopp a problem in that. He's the one goal-scorer they've got. Forget Sturridge, because at times you can't really bank on Sturridge, because he'll be out so much. But he said when he got the winning goal against Leicester... If you have a player like Ben Tekin, he scores a goal, like he has done tonight, that's one action in 90 minutes. What does he do for the rest of the other 89?
He's wanting more from him, more movement from him. But the problem he's got is no-one else in his squad scores goals.
I don't think you can complain about second half, though. I thought it was a different class, second half. Was that 48 goals in 101 games? Yeah, but that's in terms of when they're using those balls coming into it. Yeah, but I think the example you made there first up, I think that people... He's getting into a fantastic position.
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Chapter 6: Are Liverpool considered title contenders this season?
As the ball gets played into it, you should get midfield runners coming off the back of him. I don't blame him for that. I think that's how the players have got to get used to what he can do. Well, let's get his manager's view. Jürgen Klopp now with David Craig.
Jürgen, another victory and another clean sheet, is that the best way to end your year?
Yeah, I would say. It was hard work, of course we were the better team, you could see that the pressure for both teams was big, a little bit more for Sunderland, but for us too because of the intensity of the last weeks and months. You could help yourself if you make an early goal, we didn't. but we did not do too bad.
We had our situations against a very good defending team, nearly only defending, so that makes it pretty hard for us, because you don't get spaces and you have all ways to go again and slow down the game. That's not easy, but it's right, of course, it's what they can do.
Then we made the goal after the half-time and we controlled something like the game, but of course all set plays they were waiting for were difficult to defend. We did it, could make the second one, could make the third one, didn't, so we had to wait until the final whistle. Three points, go home, everything is good.
The boys in the studio picked up on the fact that at the start of the second half you seem to be pressing more, is that something you spoke about at half-time?
Yeah, but it's not too easy, you need a situation for this, if they always play long balls, you have to fight for second balls, that's what we do, but then you have always to make the decision, if I want to speed up the game and fight for a second ball,
it's not easy to orientate yourself, so you have to turn up or play it blind behind the line, so for this you need the players, what we had last week with Christian is not the same, so we have to play a little bit different, so that's the thing, it's easy to say we have to press, but you're right, in the first few minutes they gave us the opportunity to press, we were there and made the goal.
Good moment, we have to use this, Christian can take his time in a situation like this, he has the nose for this and the skills. It's really good, and then you have to defend, it's close. We have all these games and now we go home, celebrate New Year's Eve together with the family a little bit, go to West Ham and try to win again.
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