Cody Gakpo celebrates after scoring Liverpool's first goal against Manchester City
Cody Gakpo celebrates after scoring Liverpool's first goal against Manchester City
Liverpool star Cody Gakpo has warned that the Premier League leaders immeditaely switched their minds to Newcastle United within minutes of coming off the field against Manchester City.
The Reds raced nine points clear at the top-flight summit to make it seven wins in a row in all competitions under Arne Slot. And Liverpool's only defeat of the season remains the 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest back in mid-September.
Slot has stayed humble in the last couple of months and refuses to get carried away by his early successes in front of the Kop. That attitude appears to be mirrored by his players.
Gakpo said: "They said already in the dressing room, ‘Recovery starts now’, so we have to switch our minds already.
"Obviously this one feels good but yeah, the next one is coming so we have to approach it like we do every game and we go for the win."
Gakpo even credited Man City for having better moments on Sunday night and felt that Liverpool, with the Dutchman scoring a tap in then seeing Mo Salah convert from the spot, had to dig in to earn their impressive victory. Gakpo, speaking on Liverpool's website, said: "I think second half they played a little better, they were also in some moments a little bit more dominant, but we defended well as well as a team and then at the end we got the penalty for the second one and then you know the game was over. But we did a good job.
"I think in every game against a good opponent like City there will be moments that you are a little bit back in your own half because they are very good on the ball as well. So, they had their moment, they had that period – I think maybe 20 minutes – that they played very calm, they tried to create a lot of chances around our box.
"But we dug in, we didn’t concede [and] I think in those moments that’s the most important [thing]."