Klopp: There's no doubt about our attitude
There should be no doubt about the attitude of Liverpool's players, insisted Jürgen Klopp after they again saw off a top-six rival at the weekend.
Arsenal were put to the sword at Anfield as the Reds provided immediate amends for the preceding disappointment of defeat against Leicester City.
First-half goals from Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane laid the foundation for victory over the Gunners, which was finally sealed through Georginio Wijnaldum in stoppage-time.
Next up is a home clash with Burnley, who inflicted a first defeat of the season on Klopp's men back in August, and the manager once more sounded the call for greater consistency.
"I don't want to make it too philosophical – it is obviously the case we are inconsistent," he said.
"I know we don't have to doubt the attitude, and the kind of attitude we usually are looking for was here against Arsenal; they were really motivated and you cannot play like this if you have any issues.
"But we struggled in other games. So, OK, you [the media] say it is about quality and sometimes probably, yes, we don't have the quality.
"But with quality you have potential, and you make quality with work and all that stuff."
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Klopp continued: "If we judge the players after the best game of the season, then we sign a contract for another six seasons; if we do it after Leicester then you change the whole squad.
"But the truth is always in between. That is what we are working on, really working on. There will be moments when we play like this [against Arsenal] and win again – and it is what we did this season already, in fact – and it will be against a team not in the top six.
"But we have to work on it, first of all we have to feel like it is possible."
The 3-1 result on Saturday lifted Liverpool above Arsenal and back into the Premier League top four, with 11 matches remaining.
And Klopp explained that while the togetherness within and around the club has not altered, he and his staff will be pushing the squad hard every day until May.
"Especially in this moment, the club is completely together," said the German.
"Everybody expects we already should be somewhere else [in the table]. I understand this, it is our aim, it is where we want to be.
"We are completely fine, the owners are fine, they are completely with us, the players – we have a wonderful relationship.
"But that doesn't mean we say every day what they want to hear. It means we work on the things we are not as good as [we should be]."
Watch Klopp's post-match press conference