WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND (REUTERS) – Liverpool supervisor Juergen Klopp hailed Divock Origi as an “unimaginable finisher”after the ahead got here off the bench to attain in stoppage time and earn a 1-0 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday (Dec 4).
It was Origi’s twenty first Premier League objective for Liverpool, nearly half of them as an alternative, and Klopp mentioned he was fortunate to have a participant able to making such a late influence.
“He’s an unimaginable finisher – if we do not understand it at Liverpool, who ought to understand it then?” Klopp instructed reporters.
“We noticed that so typically. It is troublesome to get 500 minutes every week on this workforce due to the gamers we have now. However Divock Origi is an unimaginable soccer participant.
“He’s nice in these moments, he would not want plenty of run-up or time to search out right into a recreation, and particularly not on this recreation in the present day. It was his recreation. Profitable within the ninety fifth minute is nice, however when Div scores the objective it makes it even higher, to be sincere.”
Origi produced a medical end from Mohamed Salah’s move to lastly crack the Wolves defence and briefly ship Liverpool high of the league earlier than Manchester Metropolis changed them later.
The 26-year-old Belgian striker has made a behavior of scoring on large events, together with within the Champions League ultimate victory over Tottenham Hotspur in 2019.
However his lack of begins at Liverpool have led some to query whether or not he may transfer elsewhere.
“This workforce is excellent and if you’re our quantity 12, 13 or 14 you need to be excellent – and Div is,” Klopp mentioned.
“I’m very joyful that he’s nonetheless right here, really. I did not count on it to occur (for Origi to go away), however I would not have been stunned.
“He got here right here very younger and has scored a number of the most vital objectives within the historical past of this membership.”
Staff mate Andy Robertson summed up the temper. “I am going to take my grandkids to go to the Divock Origi statue sooner or later. WHAT A MAN,” he wrote on Twitter.