Jurgen Klopp spent the summer talking about how this current team is ‘Liverpool reloaded’. Based on the evidence of six matches, ‘Liverpool reloaded’ looks like a new version of the ‘mentality monsters’, a nickname of his all-conquering Reds side from a few years back.
In six games - five in the Premier League and one in the Europa League - Liverpool have gone 1-0 down four times. They have won five and drawn once. They have twice claimed three points when faced with the adversity of losing a player to a red card.
To put this mentality shift into perspective, at the same stage last season - five league games and one in Europe - the Reds had gone 1-0 down in five of those first six matches. Instead of 13 points and a win in Europe which they have now, Liverpool had seven points and a 4-1 thrashing in Naples.
Indeed, the Reds went 1-0 down 21 times last season and won just four of those, a tally which has already been matched. They have been buoyed by thrilling second-half performances, scoring 10 goals after the break and conceding none, which means every goal they have let in has come in the opening 45 minutes.
Liverpool never really recovered from that bruising start last term, in which they dropped points in six of their first 10 league games. There were good moments, such as beating Manchester United 7-0, but that was backed up by losing to Bournemouth and 4-1 to Manchester City.
They sat eighth in the Premier League table after that chastening defeat at the Etihad Stadium and Liverpool were eight points adrift of Champions League football. They ended up on 67 points, 25 worse than the season before in which they pushed City until the final day.
Klopp knew something had to change and the club have not lost since that
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