Jurgen Klopp says the Premier League is the strongest league in the world and his Liverpool side will give the title a go.
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s stunning free-kick put Liverpool on their way but Timothy Castagne hauled Fulham level on the stroke of half-time after an even first half.
Liverpool controlled the second half and goals from Ryan Gravenberch- his first in the Premier League for the Reds- and Diogo Jota capped off a fine afternoon for Jurgen Klopp’s side who keep in touching distance of league leaders Arsenal.
After a tricky fortnight, in which Liverpool dropped points against Manchester United and Crystal Palace in the league and crashed out of the Europa League, anything but a win for Klopp’s side today would have surely all but ended their title aspirations.
The win levels them on points with table-topping Arsenal and keeps them a point ahead of Manchester City, who do have a game in hand.
Klopp said after the game: “We’ve won the last two away games and the performance today was really good besides the final 10 minutes of the first half. We don’t have to concede then, but we obviously do.
“It’s a squad game and we need all of them. We need to fight through games. All these boys have massive quality. Sometimes the momentum isn’t there but the quality is insane. We need to figure out who and when for what and for how long. That’s part of the job.
“It makes it 74 [points] for us – we had a really good feeling that at Atalanta the performance was alright but we didn’t go through and today was even better.
“Why wouldn’t we respond? How did we get where we are? This is the strongest and most intense league in the world and we are here in this fight with two sensational teams. If we didn’t have character we wouldn’t be here.
“Sometimes you need to get momentum back and we’ve got that back a little. Do you think City feel the pressure? They have won everything in the last few years.
“We have to focus on ourselves. I try to say things that would help – if we start thinking about City it wouldn’t help.”
