Klopp warns his stars to stay angry

JURGEN KLOPP has told his players to “stay angry” if they want to finish the season on a high.

Liverpool secured three vital points in the race to finish best of the rest behind Manchester City thanks to goals from Emre Can, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.

But as they head into the final 10 games in the league, and with a quarter-final spot in the Champions League virtually secured, Klopp says his players need to guard against turning soft.

He said: “You have a good moment, you keep it going – that’s the most difficult thing.

“You’re having a good run and you have all this press work to do, all this LFC TV and all that stuff, they are all so positive. Then we start doing the funny things, so you get completely soft.

“I said it before the game in the meeting. If this would be the first day of the season, and we would know as much as we do now about each other, that would be a perfect world.

“Now we know so much about each other, now we like each other, now we have better times with each other in private and on the football pitch. Now we need to stay angry with the rest of the world, we need to stay aggressive.

“At the beginning of the season you don’t have a lot of laughter in the dressing room, it’s not like everyone is laughing all the time. Now when we eat it is like, ‘Come on, please, settle’.

“We are in a good moment, they are fantastic guys, they all like each other, a few jokes. Keep this going without getting soft.

“They don’t enjoy it too much but I don’t want to wait until I see it and then go, ‘Now we got soft’.

“You lose a little bit if you win all the time. We didn’t win all the time but two, three or four weeks