Who needs 90 minutes when you can score the three winning goals in 45? Liverpool will want to forget their first half at but their second, we want more of. did little to hide his disdain for the “joke” that was the 12.30 start and his players really drove it home at Molineux, sluggish and though they had yet to wake up. It allowed to take an early lead and, admittedly, the Reds were fortunate that they went into the break just a single goal down – but Liverpool went on to punish the hosts.
As you can see from the graph above, had waves of momentum in the first 45, scoring early and nullifying Liverpool with their pressure as they overran Klopp’s side in midfield.
And in doing so, he took his league goal contributions for Liverpool to 201 (139 goals, 62 assists) – he is only the second Red to ever reach that figure.
When Robertson says goals do not come around too often, he wasn’t lying.