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'Run or I will kill you' - Jurgen Klopp praises his Liverpool players who showed desire

  /  autty

Jurgen Klopp has praised his Liverpool players for killing off their game with Crystal Palace on Monday night.

The game was not dead a 1-0 in stoppage time, but seconds  after defending a Palace corner Liverpool were 2-0 up after Sadio Mane added to James Milner's earlier penalty.

Klopp said it showed guts and desire to get forward and score a second despite being physically tired.

The Liverpool boss said: 'In these moments the fuel is really low and maybe the players need a bit of help from an angry manager - 'run or I will kill you' - and they did that with a fantastic counter attack.'

The win at Selhurst Park was Liverpool's second in as many games.

Early season talk has predicted last year's Champions League finalists to run Manchester City all the way in the race for the Premier League title.

Klopp added that he isn't interested in getting carried away after only two games.

'It's very early,' he said. 'I couldn't care less really. We are not in a race with other Premier League teams each weekend. I was not 100 per cent sure tonight in the first half that we would score.

'You have to play it as it is and be a real challenger, play ugly, do all that type of stuff. Our target is to be a difficult opponent.

'It is too strong to say anything after two match days. You can discuss whatever you want - just do it without us.'

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