Jurgen Klopp was delighted to see Andy Robertson back to top form in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Burnley at Anfield.
When asked after the game if the Scotsman’s return to full fitness is a major boost, he said: “Yeah it is, absolutely – all of them but Robbo now especially as since we worked together he was never that long out, so for him it was very strange.
“Yeah, super-important, he played a top game. He had now not only the situation that he is coming back but even when he came back we had these kind of different sessions because we play all the time.
“We don’t have real sessions where you can feel the game again, it’s small-sided games [with] all the other guys who recover and the few who didn’t play. When you come back from injury you do different stuff so he needed the last week, three sessions, big pitch, 11 v 11, whatever we did, to feel the situation again.
“And besides that we had to force him a little bit to just ignore the fact he can’t have rhythm and bring himself in kind of a rhythm, and that’s what he did.”
Robertson might not have gotten a goal or assist, but he created five goal-scoring chances and was a livewire for the Reds moving down that left-wing.
He seems to be back to full fitness for the first time since seriously injuring his shoulder in October and is getting back to his best for the final stretch of the campaign.
