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Klopp happy with young Liverpool players for FA Cup win against Norwich

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was pleased with their FA Cup victory over Norwich City.

After an early scare, the Reds were comfortable 5-2 winners in this Fourth Round tie.

Curtis Jones, Darwin Núñez, Diogo Jota, Virgil van Dijk and Ryan Gravenberch were the goalscorers for Liverpool.

Klopp later said: "Good game, cup game, Norwich had their moments and scored wonderful goals but they did well. Their second goal was exceptional, really good finish. Our goals were wonderful, we played well from the beginning. Four of our five goals were set up by academy graduates which was really cool so only positives from the game.

"Curtis is in a great moment for us, super important in different departments. He's a very good player but he is a role model as well coming up through the academy. All of our guys coming up through the academy are good guys who can play football. If Curtis Jones can learn defending, everyone can learn defending. Offensive play, this high press which he is setting for us. If he can do it everybody can do it and you see that James [McConnell] played a super game today, you see it with all the kids, Bobby [Clark] when we brought him on recently. It's the same. They are all really good footballers. they make these steps and Curtis shows how it goes so I am really happy about that.

"It's good to have players back, Trent [Alexander-Arnold], Robbo [Andy Robertson], Dom [Szoboszlai], we need all of our players and hopefully we are in a good shape.

On the reception from fans after his resignation announcement, he added: "It was great for the fans to show their love to me and we need an atmosphere on the pitch. We need the crowd and for them not to think about the manager. We need to forget it for a while and go for each opponent like crazy and that's what we want to do and the next chance is on Wednesday."

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