Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers stands by his team's possession game.

Rodgers insists he has always strove to play a style of football that is pleasing on the eye and sees no reasons why Liverpool's new number nine should change that.

"I worry that we play good football," he said.

"I've always done that in my life - working with young players, working now at senior level as a manager with over 300-odd games - I've always worried about the football.

"I'm not one that will go into every game and not worry about how we play and take a 1-0. You can do that at times but the nature of how I work on a daily basis, and how we work as a coaching staff, is based on the tactical idea of intelligent footballers, creative footballers with high energy, the ability to press the game and make it really difficult for opponents with and without the ball.

"That notion hasn't changed but as you evolve as a manager and a coach, you understand and recognise that at times there are different ways to win a game of football. When you have those types of players, that gives us a better way to win."