Liverpool analysis: Will Jurgen Klopp succeed at Anfield?

Liverpool has gotten off to a disappointing start so far this year. In need of points to compete for a Champions League berth, the pressure of Jurgen Klopp is growing.

Jurgen Klopp, the manager of Liverpool, has seen his club continue to provide frustrations to its fans as the club underachieves once again. A top ten standing in the Premier League is not exactly poor, but the club’s top-level talent is not living up to expectations yet again.

Jurgen Klopp has dealt with some challenges this season. The largest of which being Barcelona’s unrelenting pursuit of midfielder Phillipe Coutinho. While Liverpool are still afloat at the moment, and have a strong shot at competing for a Champions League berth, they are sitting at just thirteen points through nine games.

Just below Liverpool is unwanted company. Southampton and Huddersfield are breathing down Liverpool’s neck with a dozen points each, and only one draw could shove Liverpool out of the top ten and below some of the league’s most obscure teams.

Jurgen Klopp has developed a reputation as one of the game’s most forward thinking managers, dating back to his days managing Borussia Dortmund. The fifty-year-old German manager has become of the more advanced minds in attacking and goal scoring, but the results haven’t been showing this year at Liverpool.

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While at Liverpool, Klopp has won fifty-six matches, lost twenty-four, and drawn thirty-four. The success over the long-term has been there, but Klopp has yet to get Liverpool out of the seemingly endless hamster wheel in the Premier League.

After back-to-back second place finishes in 2013 and 2014, Liverpool slipped to sixth in 2015, and eighth in 2016. The concern was beginning to develop as the team continued to fail to make impactful signings and saw their fans grow impatient. Now sitting at number nine with a potential fall out of the top ten looking very possible, Liverpool are in bigger trouble than it may appear.

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With larger clubs like Barcelona trying to snatch up some of the remaining stars at Liverpool, the pressure is on Jurgen Klopp to deliver the goods to a growingly impatient fan base and restore the success of 2013 and 2014.