Klopp hails 'wonder goal' as Reds reclaim top spotpublished at 07:08 British Summer Time 5 April
Liverpool 3-1 Sheff Utd
Jurgen Klopp praised Alexis Mac Allister for the "wonder goal" that helped Liverpool overcome battling Sheffield United and stay in control of the Premier League title race.
The bottom-of-the-table Blades were on course for a shock draw at Anfield, but Mac Allister - a World Cup winner with Argentina - scored with a brilliant 20-yard strike into the top corner to put the Reds 2-1 up.
Cody Gakpo added a 90th-minute third as Liverpool returned to the top of the table.
Boss Klopp said: "We needed Macca's wonder goal to turn it around. He is super important for us, a wonderful player and a wonderful boy - I'm really happy for Liverpool that we got him.
"His defensive work has been really good where people were doubting if he could be defensive, but I prefer him in the eight [attacking midfield].
"He is a really good player. In the first half he was playing [as a] six, but we knew we could move him slightly higher. Then he scores this kind of goal, the two biggest screamers of the season [after also scoring from long distance against Fulham] have come from him. Then the free-kick directly after [the goal] - absolutely insane, what a player."