'Mentality monsters are back' - National media react to Liverpool win at Wolves
Liverpool continued their impressive start to the Premier League season with an ultimately comfortable 3-1 win at Wolves on Saturday.
The Reds endured a torrid first half at Molineux in their first game back after the international break and could count themselves fortunate to be only one goal behind at the interval.
But after a stern half-time team talk from Jurgen Klopp, and a change at the break and two more shortly after it, they came roaring back. Cody Gakpo cancelled out Hwang Hee-chan's seventh-minute opener before Mohamed Salah made it three assists for the afternoon by setting up strikes late on for stand-in skipper Andy Robertson and Harvey Elliott to seal the points, although the latter was rather harshly adjudged to go down as a Hugo Bueno own goal.
The victory moved Liverpool to the top of the Premier League before Manchester City resumed pole position with a 3-1 win of their own at West Ham United.
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And here's what the national media, along with our own Paul Gorst, made of the Reds, who now turn their attention to the Europa League and a trip to Austria to face LASK on Thursday.
"The mentality monsters are back"
Paul Joyce for the Times: "For all the slick, technical ability that Liverpool’s squad now boasts, there is a resilience and underlying toughness that continues to come to the fore. The mentality monsters are back.
"Time was running out here. Andrew Robertson collected a poor clearance about 10 yards inside the Wolverhampton Wanderers half, stepped forward, flicked a pass to Mohamed Salah and kept on running, intent on making
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