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4th April 2016
08:42am BST

He missed a glorious chance in the opening half, and while he did assist Philippe Coutinho for the first goal of the game, he looked a little bit short of sharpness.
Sturridge left the field in a strop, but Klopp is happy he has once again annoyed his first-choice striker.
“I like this – as long as he doesn’t come off the pitch and do something really strange, like kicking me from behind!”. “I saw that he was not happy, because I’m not blind. But that’s not a problem, because if he came off and (celebrated) something would be really wrong. "I think that’s completely normal — especially with the quality of Daniel Sturridge." https://twitter.com/ArfanAmile/status/716618273136226304Klopp replaced Sturridge with Divock Origi and decided against the idea of playing two up front as Liverpool looked to secure a point against the championship-chasing Londoners. The German admits that Sturridge may not always like the changes made, but tough.
"He has to think, 'Leave me on the pitch and I can decide the game'. You have to think ‘Yes, I’m the best’. That’s true, but in this moment we needed other help in the game. "I could have changed Adam Lallana and gone with two strikers but in my opinion — and only my opinion counts — it didn’t make sense, so that’s it.”

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