Gini Wijnaldum lauds “amazing” Mo Salah with “a lot of work” ahead for Liverpool – Liverpool FC

Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum insists qualifying for the Champions League quarter-finals is not any assure of a turnaround of their home kind, and the gamers should work even more durable to get issues again on observe.

A second 2-0 win over RB Leipzig on Wednesday made it 4-0 on combination and put Jurgen Klopp’s aspect into the final eight for the third time in 4 seasons.

Nevertheless, these two victories – plus the one over the Premier League’s backside aspect Sheffield United – are the one successes of their final 9 video games, a spell which has seen an unprecedented six successive defeats at Anfield.

They head into the weekend in eighth, seven factors behind fourth-placed Chelsea and having performed another match than fellow top-four chasers West Ham, Everton and Tottenham.

“It helps to get confidence again when you might have outcomes and particularly while you play a superb recreation,” Wijnaldum informed LiverpoolFC.com.

“But it surely’s not a assure that you simply’re going to win the following couple of video games, so we simply have to understand that we’ve to present all the things and work even more durable than earlier than to get the outcomes again that we had earlier than.

“So we’re proud of this and it’ll give us confidence, however we all know that we nonetheless should do plenty of work to win plenty of video games in a row.”

Uncharacteristically objectives have been an issue for Klopp’s aspect, with solely Mohamed Salah, who in opposition to Leipzig registered 25 in a season for the third time in 4 years on the membership, reaching the numbers anticipated of him.

Whereas Sadio Mane has scored in back-to-back Champions League ties, he has managed solely three Premier League objectives for the reason that Merseyside derby in mid-October, during which Liverpool’s season began to take a downward flip when Virgil van Dijk was dominated out for the remainder of the marketing campaign with a knee damage.

Roberto Firmino, at present out injured with a sore knee, has scored six objectives – all within the Premier League – in 37 appearances.

To place his kind into context, Diogo Jota, who missed three months with a knee damage, has 9 objectives in 20 appearances and whereas he has not scored since returning in final Sunday’s defeat to Fulham, he has appeared energetic.

“This season, sadly, we’re ready and a scenario the place we don’t rating each probability we’ve,” mentioned Wijnaldum.

“[Creating chances] provides you a very good feeling; typically additionally you’re upset since you don’t rating the probabilities you get however that we create probabilities once more is an efficient factor.”

On Salah’s continued consistency in entrance of objective – he has 119 in 191 appearances for the membership – the Netherlands midfielder added: “We hope that he can proceed doing that as a result of that can make it simpler for us to win video games.

“[It’s] superb what he’s doing. He’s at all times looking for a objective, at all times looking to come back into positions to attain a objective.

“Yeah, 25 is an efficient quantity – hopefully he can proceed scoring objectives.”

Friday is the one hundredth anniversary of the birthday of the previous Liverpool supervisor Joe Fagan, who died in 2001 having received the European Cup, Division One title and League Cup treble in 1985, and as a part of Anfield’s ongoing improvement plans are being mentioned for a long-lasting tribute.

The bottom already has statues devoted to Invoice Shankly and Bob Paisley.