Thiago Silva then cleared one off the line from Mohamed Salah before Liverpool were denied by the most wafer thin of offside calls on Virgil van Dijk after Joel Matip had headed home from about a yard out. And lets be honest, its probably impossible. The celebrations that followed the first trophy of Klopp's managerial career were suitably exuberant. But all is not well in the visitors ranks given Sadio Mans angry reaction to being substituted late on after becoming increasingly frustrated with Mohamed Salahs failure to pass to him. As Andrew Robertson put it after that win over Burnley in August 2019: People will say there are better strikers, but what he does is so important to our team. The Reds have collected 10 points from their last four Premier League matches and will seek to extend that positive run when they face their rivals this weekend. 7 trophies lifted and the Club World Cup. Lukasz Piszczek, a full-back and former winger, joined from relegated Hertha Berlin, while an unheralded attacking midfielder, Shinji Kagawa, signed after starring for Japanese second-tier side Cerezo Osaka. In the five years since he took the hot seat, his Liverpool team have shaken off their fragilities and come to embody a brave, front-foot style of play that is the envy of most teams around the world. Gtze and Sahin each scored six goals and combined for over 20 assists between them. Diogo Jota, Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, and Cody Gakpo have all joined the attack but injuries to some have once again caused delays to the Reds' rebuild. It was Munich again who foiled him in a final a year later, as the sides faced off in the final of the 2014 DFL-Pokal. Grosskreutz had eight goals, Hummels got five, and Polish pair Piszczek and Jakub Blaszczykowski finished with seven assists and three goals and four assists respectively. Roberto Firmino signed for Liverpool under former manager Brendan Rodgers during the summer transfer window of 2015. Klopp, quite rightly, will not concern himself with those thoughts just yet, but there is no harm in fans taking the opposite approach. What also followed was a first-ever Premier League title, as Liverpool dominated the 2019-20 season in a brilliant campaign, making for a historic treble of trophies. Despite a 12-point advantage, Klopp continued to play down Dortmund's title chances. Kepa's would be the kick that decided it all; Liverpool won on penalties 11-10. Looking directly at camera, Roberto Firmino stops, blows out his cheeks, smirks, then smirks again. Divock Origi and Ibrahima Konate later joined the fray as Klopp made full use of a squad everyone is now championing as the strongest for many, many years. Borussia Dortmund clinched the 2010/11 title with two games to spare at home against Nuremberg. 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You really have to go for it," Klopp said, with a Champions League defeat at home to Real Madrid leaving a top four finish as Liverpool's best chance of a return to the competition. With four years left and no doubt plenty of silverware won along the way could Klopp become the best coach in the clubs history? We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. I want to help them, I have no other job, I have to help the boys be the best player they can be.. 01 Mar 2023 10:50:57 When Klopp was appointed as Dortmund head coach in May 2008, club CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke delivered what turned out to be an accurate prediction. Klopp helped bring Liverpool two trophies that the club had never previously secured. Full throttle was what this young side did best, according to Watzke, and they continued to relentlessly reel off wins in the same way they hunted down the ball. United look a team reborn under Ten Hag, having won the Carabao Cup last week to lift their first major trophy since 2017. But do not under-estimate the importance to United of finishing ahead of Liverpool. Quite simply the trio were made for each other and over the course of five years established themselves as one of the most aggressive, thrilling and decisive attacking units European football has ever seen. Mainz - who stunned the champions 2-1 in Munich on Matchday 6 - led the league by October with a magnificent seven wins from seven games. Rashford scored Manchester United's second in their win over Newcastle United at Wembley as Erik ten Hag led the Old Trafford club to their first trophy since 2017. Klopp has won an illustrious 12 trophies across his time managing at Mainz, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool, including the UEFA Champions League. WebJurgen Klopp can see the funny side of Liverpools Premier League penalty record, with the Reds going almost a year without one. They were far from the last. He has also won the Premier League's 'Manager of the Year' accolade twice. Jurgen Klopp's wait for a major trophy goes on following Liverpool's 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev. "They play an elegant, passionate and imaginative football," impressed Leverkusen boss Heynckes - who would soon be battling Klopp with Bayern - said after the game. Because while this is the first time that Klopp's Liverpool have been able to physically lift silverware in front of their own fans on domestic soil, this could simply be the one that gets the ball rolling on the most incredible period ever at Liverpool FC. If ever there was a sign that this season was different, it came on Matchday 24. February 24 2023, 12:28 pm And while Firmino may have been the least eye-catching member of the trio he was undeniably central, literally as well as figuratively, to the devastation they, and the team as a whole, caused. The former Southampton forward missed the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar due to a leg injury he suffered a few days before the tournament and only returned to action at the weekend after coming off the bench against Union Berlin. "It's crazy how much each one of them has improved over the last three years," a beaming Klopp said of his squad in the wake of the Nuremberg win. The midweek victory over Wolves closed the gap to fourth-placed Tottenham to six points with a match in hand and Spurs still to come to Anfield. Liverpool was the biggest, greatest, most successful time of my life together with the manager, together with my colleagues, together with all of them. [. The argument was that despite having not won the title since 1990, before Jurgen Klopp finally delivered it again in 2020, Liverpool had stayed big and stayed Exhilarating knockout ties with Manchester City and Roma failed to halt their momentum until Real Madrid capitalised on a number of Liverpool mistakes to triumph 3-1 in the 2018 final in Kiev, marking the second Champions League final defeat of Klopps career. They welcomed back young midfielder Toni Kroos from his loan spell at Bayer Leverkusen, while fellow future 2014 FIFA World Cup winners Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger would also play integral roles. Instead he argued they sometimes just need the right manager. The quadruple-chasing Reds are one quarter into their mission; one trophy down, three to go. It was about who they were as human beings and everything they had overcome in life. Liverpool prepare to face Wolves in the Premier League and Arthur Melo may be included in the squad after an appearance for the under-21s. And you can print that.It has been printed and quoted many, many times since. Before June 1, 2019, Liverpool had reached three major finals under Klopp but had lost them all. In the aftermath, Roy Keane declared United were no longer the institution he once played for. They followed that up by knocking West Ham out of Sadio Mane ended his six-year Reds stint by joining Bayern Munich after the 2022 Champions League final, while midfielder Gini Wijnaldum - leaving on a free transfer like Firmino - played in all 38 Premier League games in his final Anfield season in 2020-21. Jrgen Klopp got so caught up in Borussia Dortmund's celebrations after the win over Bayern Munich in February 2011 that his glasses were broken. A run of five points from 12 between Matchdays 26 and 29 might have caused some nerves as Leverkusen swiftly cut the gap to five points with five games to play. "We didn't want to limit ourselves by setting a realistic target," Klopp said in 2015. "In this year of the first title, he was a locomotive who gave the power to the rest," Watzke told Sky Sports in 2019. With Mainz, he won promotion to the Bundesliga back in 2004, and then won back-to-back Bundesliga titles with Dortmund from 2010-2012. In September 2002 Sir Alex Ferguson was under pressure. The next best - Tuchel's Mainz, who finished fifth - had let in 17 more. Chelsea had a couple of big chances at either end of the first half with Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount but Liverpool's most glaring opportunity came when Edouard Mendy saved from Keita before somehow keeping out Sadio Mane while on the floor. Before falling in the Champions League final against Real Madrid on May 28, they defeated Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final (Feb. 27) and the FA Cup final (May 14), both via a penalty-kick shootout after a scoreless draw. I said, We have to play without two of the best strikers in the world. Future Dortmund captain Marco Reus then saved Gladbach from the same fate with a late goal in a promotion/relegation play-off with Bochum. I always did that with my players as well. The Brazil international is set to leave Anfield at the end of the season, bringing his eight-year stint to an end. Klopp was voted England's best manager twice since arriving at Liverpool in 2015. Jurgen Klopp has won his first trophy since the 2012 German double with Borussia Dortmund Liverpool erased the disappointment of last season's Uefa United won the first trophy of the season last Sunday when they beat Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final. They are just choosing to spend it more cautiously. ", 'Stunning' former rectory transformed into modern 1m home, The house dates back to 1880 and includes a lot of period features, Family wrongly kicked out of Mother Goose panto give their review, John's wife was "in tears" as they were escorted out of the auditorium by staff and security, Schoolboy has 'little time left' after mum noticed 'lopsided smile', "There was no longer a cure they could offer him and time was very limited. Jrgen Klopp etched his name into Bundesliga history in 2010/11 before winning a league and cup double a year later. At this time, while he was courted by Liverpool and in his first few seasons in England, the media both English and German questioned Klopp for his record in silverware matches, causing him to quip in 2019, "I am probably at the moment a world-record holder, in the last seven years at least, in winning semifinals. But if I wrote a book about that probably nobody would buy it.". He embraced Ferguson at Wembley last Sunday after winning his first trophy: the Carabao Cup. "I think there's rarely been a champion thats deserved it as much - they're on fire," said Stuttgart coach Bruno Labbadia when asked about Germany's youngest ever champions, who seemed as popular as they were effective. Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse Getty Images. The world outside is saying it is not possible. Teams couldnt live with the intensity and work rate of Klopp's team, with both playmaker Sahin and the electric Gtze in majestic form and Kagawa finishing with eight goals before the winter break. On Matchday 7 they underlined their title credentials as Barrios and Sahin condemned Bayern to a second successive defeat, leaving the champions in 12th after scoring just five goals all season. As expected, Caoimhin Kelleher started ahead of Alisson Becker as Henderson returned to the side as captain 10 years and a day since he last won this competition with the Reds. 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The Reds have struggled to repeat last season's form, though, and are playing catch-up in the top four race ahead of their weekend clash with Erik ten Hag's Man Utd. Liverpool stride out onto the Bernabeu pitch on Wednesday 5-2 down on aggregate. My greatest challenge is not whats happening at the moment, Ferguson said before delivering the killer line: My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f------ perch. Hansen, in a column for Telegraph Sport, said Ferguson faced the greatest challenge of his career.The response? Jrgen Norbert Klopp is a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool. However it ends now is anyone's guess, but it will be a fascinating, thrilling, utterly compelling watch over the next two months. Another player who moved abroad for the first time that year was Robert Lewandowski, a soon-to-be 22-year-old who had scored 41 goals in 82 matches for Lech Poznan in Poland. Having signed a contract extension that will keep him at the club until 2024, Klopps legend continues to be written. 3 Has Klopp won any trophies with Liverpool? How good must it feel to know that all of this Wembley colour and cheer could merely be the glorious prelude to the most sensational conclusion of any season of any era at Anfield? 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[, Roberto Firmino, va his agent, Roger Wittman: Ive had my time but its time to go. Dortmund's local rivals Schalke, who had been runners-up the year before, also looked strong after securing a marquee signing in veteran forward Raul from Real Madrid. How many finals has he lost at Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund. Call it charisma, call it emotional intelligence, whatever it is, Klopp had it in spades, winning fans over immediately with almost his first words to them. The last day of August 2019 and Liverpool have just beaten Burnley 3-0 at Turf Moor with a display that is as dominant as it is devastating. "It's one of the most beautiful days," BVB sporting director Michael Zorc, who won the league with Dortmund as a player twice in the 1990s, said afterwards. At Dortmund, he reached the Champions League final at Wembley, where his side were edged out by a last-gasp winner from Arjen Robben which broke Dortmund hearts as they lost 2-1 to Bayern Munich. Roberto Firmino is currently in the last year of his contract at Anfield. With one of the best squads in the world, Liverpool were upset in the final on a lone Vinicius goal despite outshooting the Spanish club 24-4. Henry, influenced by baseballs Moneyball statistical insurrection, honed in on Klopp after his name was identified by a team of leading mathematicians and data scientists as the right man for the job. Jurgen Klopp reflects on absolutely exceptional season. The Brazil international has been a key player for the Merseyside outfit ever since. That decisive period followed an earlier WebKlopp knows his side will have a difficult task nullifying Rashford - yet he's not United's only potent threat. United look a team reborn under Ten Hag, having won the League Cup last week to lift their first major trophy since 2017. Despite going ahead, they lost out to goals from Luis Gustavo, Bas Dost and Kevin de Bruyne. In Luis Diaz, the Reds had the game's outstanding performer, but there was nothing between the sides at the break, despite Klopp's men exerting the most pressure after the first 15 minutes or so. He excelled in a 4-1 win for Klopps side, scoring one goal, providing assists for two others and generally tormenting the hosts up until his substitution on 77 minutes. With the like of Mario Gomez, Thomas Mller, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben in their ranks, the champions had a surplus of attacking talent. Premier League: The Big Interview with Nigel De Jong. "They have turned into a results machine. Lewandowski - who ended his first season in Germany with eight league goals - cleverly lifted in the second shortly before half-time. It was also made clear, according to the same reports, that the 31-year-old is making his decision with his family in mind and will 'fight until the end' for Liverpool. It was a cruel twist of fate for the Spaniard and his touchline tears revealed all about his disappointment as the two teams were kicking off. Hell soon be gone but its fair to say Liverpool will never forget Bobby. And that is clear. 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