Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool FC - Review

Jürgen Norbert Klopp is a former professional football player and a German football manager, who is currently the manager of the English Premier League club, Liverpool. Klopp became Liverpool’s manager last year on October 8, 2015. He signed three year deal to become the manager of Liverpool and replaced Brendan Rodgers.   Liverpool under the guidance of manager Jürgen Klopp When Klopp became the manager of Liverpool, the club was eight games in the football season of 2015-16. At that time, the club had won 3 matches, lost 2 matches, and ended up in a draw in 3 matches with a total of 12 points or 1.5 points per game. And, if you figure this out for a full season, it comes to 57 points for Liverpool. The three wins of Liverpool were against Aston Villa, Bournemouth, and Stoke City football clubs. In these matches, Liverpool scored a total of 8 goals in which 3 were against Aston Villa and conceded 10 goals with a minus 2 goal difference. Furthermore, Liverpool played 4 games away and 4 games at home till then and kept 3 clean sheets, while scoring 5 goals in its 4 home games. Have a look at the statistics of Liverpool in brief in order to know how Liverpool performed under the guidance of Jürgen Klopp.   Liverpool statistics In the debut football match of Liverpool after Jürgen Klopp became the manager of the club, Liverpool settled with a draw against Tottenham Hotspur football club with a score of 0 to 0. This debut football match took place on October 17, 2015. Klopp got his first win as the manager of Liverpool on October 28, 2015 against Bournemouth football club. This match was in the League Cup and secured Liverpool a position in the quarter-finals. Three days later, Klopp secured his first win in the Premier League, with a score of 3 to 1 against Chelsea. After this match, Liverpool played three matches, each of which ended in a draw with a score of 1 to 1 each. These were the UEFA Europa League’s opening matches. After this, Liverpool won its fourth match of the UEFA Europa League in which it defeated Rubin Kazan and won with a score of 1 to 0. This was Klopp’s first win as the manager of Liverpool in Europe. After this, Jürgen Klopp missed a match of the EPL, which took place of February 6, 2016 as he was suffering with an alleged appendicitis and had an appendectomy.   Furthermore, Liverpool lost the EPL League Cup Final of 2016, which took place on February 28, 2016 at Wembley Stadium. Liverpool played this match against Manchester City and lost it with a score of 3 to 1 on penalties. However, Liverpool progressed under the guidance of Klopp in a football match they played on March 17, 2016. The club advanced to the UEFA Europa League’s quarter finals by beating Manchester United with an aggregate score of 3 to 1. Moreover, Liverpool defended from a second half shortfall of 3 to 1 score on April 14, 2016 in the second leg of the quarter final football match, which was against Klopp’s former club, Borussia Dortmund. Liverpool won this match with a score of 4 to 3 and advanced to the UEFA Europa League’s semi-finals with an aggregate score of 5 to 4. Then, Liverpool went on to win its first final of the UEFA Europa League since 2007 under the guidance of Klopp. This was the semi final European match that took place on May 5, 2016 in which the club beat Villarreal with an aggregate score of 3 to 1. However, Liverpool lost the final match against Sevilla with a score of 1 to 3. In this match, Daniel Sturridge scored the Liverpool’s opening goal in the match’s first half. Furthermore, Jürgen Klopp signed his football coaching deal extensions of 6 years along with his coaching staff on July 8, 2016, which means that they are here to stay till 2022.   Conclusion This year on 8 October, 2016, Jürgen Klopp completed his one year anniversary as the manager of Liverpool Football Club. In his first year, the German manager made impressive progress. Klopp fulfilled his hope, which was to turn Liverpool “from doubters to believers.” The statistics to Liverpool’s start to the football season are really positive this time with Klopp as its manager. This includes more joint top scorers of Liverpool club, more shots on goals, more chances, more passes, more kilometers run, sprints, dribbles, etc. Currently, Liverpool ranks at number 18 in the English Premier League in the due course of the last 1 year. In short, when you look at the whole picture, you see how marvelously Liverpool has progressed within a year after Klopp became the manager of the club. Moreover, this impressive progress of the club is continuing on an upward trajectory. The football matches of Liverpool FC are now a treat to watch as the club plays a challenging game every time, no matter which is their opposition team. Although, no one can envisage what the future will be, yet the future looks brighter for atleast the following 5 years for Liverpool with Jürgen Klopp as its manager.