Your Liverpool morning headlines for Sunday, May 1.
What Liverpool players did in St James' Park dressing room after Newcastle win
Jurgen Klopp has detailed how Liverpool had already turned their thoughts to the Champions League the moment they returned to the dressing room at Newcastle United.
Naby Keita’s fourth goal of the season was sufficient to earn a 1-0 win at St James’ Park on Saturday afternoon to maintain their Premier League title challenge and quest for an unprecedented quadruple.
The Reds will look to reach their third final of the season when they take on Villarreal in Spain in their Champions League semi-final second leg on Tuesday having won the first leg 2-0.
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While Liverpool were earning a fifth successive win in all competitions at Newcastle, a similarly much-changed Villarreal went down 2-1 at relegation-threatened Alaves in La Liga.
And Klopp said: “We finished the game and the analysts were in the dressing room and we’re asking how Villarreal are playing.
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Overlooked contract decision
Jurgen Klopp’s contract has inevitably been the main talking point at Liverpool this week after the German penned a new two-year extension to commit his future to the Reds until 2026, briefly stealing attention away from the likes of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane in the process.
Normality was resumed on Friday, however, when the German was asked how much his Anfield stay would impact the two forwards’ decisions regarding their own futures ahead of their own contracts expiring in 2023. Now close to the final 12 months of their deals, along with Naby Keita, Roberto Firmino and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, such talk is not going to away anytime soon for as long as their futures remain unresolved.
But there’s one contract decision that remains overlooked at Anfield - that of James Milner’s.
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