{"id":125103,"date":"2019-12-27T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/27\/roberto-firminos-value-to-liverpool-goes-beyond-goals-says-jurgen-klopp\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:45:41","slug":"roberto-firminos-value-to-liverpool-goes-beyond-goals-says-jurgen-klopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125103","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Firmino\u2019s value to Liverpool goes beyond goals, says J\u00fcrgen Klopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manager reminds player of his work as team\u2019s \u2018connector\u2019\u2022 \u2018When I think about Bobby I don\u2019t think about scoring\u2019J\u00fcrgen Klopp has revealed Roberto Firmino\u2019s recent burst of goals came after the player had to be reassured of his value to Liverpool following a long stretch without scoring. The manager described the Brazilian as Liverpool\u2019s \u201cconnector\u201d, who gives invaluable service even when not getting on the scoresheet.Firmino\u2019s finishing has been impeccable over the festive period, as he scored the winning goals against Monterrey and Flamengo in the Club World Cup before two goals in the demolition of Leicester on Thursday. But he had scored only once in the previous 16 Premier League and Champions League and began to worry about his form until Klopp reminded him of his precious contribution beyond goals. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/dec\/27\/roberto-firmino-liverpool-goals-jurgen-klopp\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto Firmino\u2019s value to Liverpool goes beyond goals, says J\u00fcrgen Klopp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manager reminds player of his work as team\u2019s \u2018connector\u2019\u2022 \u2018When I think about Bobby I don\u2019t think about scoring\u2019J\u00fcrgen Klopp has revealed Roberto Firmino\u2019s recent burst of goals came after the player had to be reassured of his value to Liverpool following a long stretch without scoring. The manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}