Liverpool picked up a 1-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers of their FA Cup third-round replay final evening.
A protracted-range effort from Harvey Eliot helped Liverpool seal their place within the subsequent spherical of the competitors the place they are going to face Brighton and Hove Albion.
In the course of the post-match press convention, Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp heaped reward on the Wolves midfielders Ruben Neves and Matheus Nunes.
Nunes has been linked with a transfer to Liverpool on the finish of the season and a report from Liverpool Echo claims that the Reds have been monitoring him since his days at Sporting Lisbon. The 24-year-old is a summer time goal for Liverpool and Klopp’s feedback on the participant will definitely gas additional speculations surrounding the summer time transfer.
The Liverpool supervisor revealed that the likes of Neves and Nunes made it onerous for Liverpool to protect their lead and grind out the outcome final evening. Each gamers helped dominate the sport throughout the second half and Wolves will really feel unfortunate to have come away with a defeat.
“We dropped a bit deeper, I didn’t like that an excessive amount of, Wolves got here up slightly bit,” said Klopp.
“Within the second once you let (Ruben) Neves within the recreation and it adjustments all the things just about after which when Nunes is on the pitch as properly then it’s like twice as tough and we did very well.”
Nunes was fairly spectacular towards Liverpool at Anfield as properly.
The Reds want to enhance their midfield choices on the finish of the season and it stays to be seen whether or not they can agree on a cope with Wolves for the Portuguese worldwide midfielder.