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Klopp delighted as Liverpool thump Bournemouth

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was left delighted with his attacking players after their 4-0 win at Bournemouth.

After an even first-half, Liverpool ran riot as Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez both struck twice for the victory.

Klopp later said: "I'm more happy after the first half because it was a tough one. We didn't play good football. The message at half-time was that it's still 0-0 so let's try to be great and the boys were.

"People might write a story about the half-time changes working again, you can write as well about why you have the first line up from the beginning.

"It was obvious we needed to change something. We did and it worked much better. Everything was better, counter press is better, we put them really under pressure and we scored some beautiful goals, It was well played anyway. Impact from the bench again as well so it turned into a pretty good evening.

On the attacking quality of the team, he added: "We miss a few others, we missed Joel Matip who won the Champions League for us, Trent [Alexander-Arnold] who was in a pretty good moment, Dominik Szoboszlai is out, Thiago didn't start, Stefan Bajcetic didn't start and on top of all of the others, Wataru Endo so it's a tough moment.

"In the moment we still have solutions and now the boys should come back step by step. We play in three days, then three days, then three days later. Semi-final in cup games and then Chelsea and Arsenal so we better be good otherwise we have a problem."

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