Strange thing is - if we had started Coutinho and Firmino in the first half I don't think we'd be winning. That process of upsetting the apple cart by introducing them has done wonders. So far, so good in terms of game management from Klopp.
I absolutely agree - this is the weirdness of it all. We're notoriously poor starters and Firmino and Coutinho are as complicit in that as all the other players. They then start to struggle to shift through the gears.
But it must be a motivational lift seeing quality players come on in a match when we're struggling - in a perverse way, it may work more effectively.
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