Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool were ‘close to perfect’ in beating Aston Villa 3-0 today at Anfield, with the German manager praising his team’s performance as ‘the best in a long time’.
Summer recruit Dominik Szoboszlai opened the scoring after three minutes and put in a mercurial midfield performance, before Darwin Nunez forced Matty Cash into an own goal and much-discussed Mo Salah added a third in the second half.
After sub-par overall performances against Chelsea, Bournemouth and Newcastle, the Reds registered their first clean sheet of the season in an all-round fine display, which Klopp described as a ‘top game’.