Jurgen Klopp believes Jarrell Quansah will vindicate Liverpool’s decision not to sign a centre-back this summer as he explains Ibrahim Konate’s early exit from the Europa League. Quansah has become a star player for the Reds this season after attending the academy from the age of five.
The 20-year-old made his sixth start against LASK Linz at Anfield on Thursday night and was influential in keeping United’s clean sheet in the 4-0 win that secured them top spot in Group E. We did -a. And when asked about the Quansah performance, Klopp said: “It was very good for us. Jarell had a great game. To be honest, this couldn’t be better news for the club. Until this season people were telling us to buy a central defender. We knew we had Jarrell. Did we know it looked like this? It wasn’t exact, but we were very confident.
So the future looks bright. He is our child, calm at the ball, patient in difficulties, quick and ruthless at the right time.”With Caoim, that’s really good news for us because sometimes we’ve had our best defensive situations when he’s holding us back.”Quansa paired Conat as one of three centre-backs in the 11th minute of the second half shortly after Mohamed Salah’s penalty had given Liverpool a three-goal lead.
And Klopp said: “I took him off, it was a medical decision and there was no risk. It was 50 minutes, but not too much.” Young Northern Ireland right-back Conor Bradley returned from injury and made his first start of the season as a second-half substitute alongside 20-year-old left-back Luke Chambers while Cade Gordon missed out.
Due to hip pain, he sat on the bench for almost two years in the first team. So I’m very happy for the boys,” Klopp said. “We have great talent. I saw him again tonight.“After all this time it would be nice if Bradley could get some time with the U23s (at Burnley on Tuesday) but we are in a high-performance industry and that means it will come down to Tuesday or Thursday. The difference.
Tuesday wasn’t great but Thursday was good for a few minutes and we tried to get there.”Luke Chambers is back after a long layoff. It took me a while to get into a rhythm and I’m getting better. He also has talent. “Kyde Gordon is back after a long injury layoff.
He’s been incredible and has been doing great in training.” If we can do that, we’re empowering boys not just with words, but with actions that will take them to the next level.”It’s great to see him back in training. He had a great season with us (2021) but he’s been out for a long time. Glad to have it back.
