Rodgers gave his thoughts on Liverpool’s 2-0 away win at Southampton:
“It was an outstanding win for us, very controlled. Of course, you have got to defend at times, in particular away from home against a very good side.”
“But it was a wonderful win for us and I thought as the game wore on, if we had picked our passes a bit better we might have got in a bit more.”
“We got two wonderful goals, different types of goals, and were defensively very, very strong so it was an excellent win.”
“It’s just going to be small steps for us. The first period of this season was nothing like what we’ve been in my time at the club. We had to find a solution to that.”
“We have restructured the team and organised the team in a different way, to get that solidity back and get the balance back both offensively and defensively.”
“And the players’ response has been absolutely magnificent; we have been playing two or three times a week now for the last four months.”
On upcoming games:
“We have got Manchester City and Manchester United to play at home, and Arsenal away. It was a big step for us today to go three points behind, considering the start we had to the season.”
“It really shows the consistency of the players. Hopefully, we’ll use the experiences of last year, where we had a lot of young players gaining experience of the run-in – they coped with that very well and just missed out last year.”
“Hopefully now we can keep the mentality and focus, and keep the performance level.”
On Mamadou Sakho and Dejan Lovren:
“Sakho has been in the team in the winning run, and it has been difficult for the players that haven’t been able to perform, but they have kept up their work in training and been very professional.”
“When Dejan has been asked, he has come off the bench and had to do a job for us in the last few games and played very well.”
“Today was always going to be difficult, but I thought he dealt with it very well. Adam Lallana was outstanding.”
