Emre: Liverpool Can turn the ship around

Emre Can insists his side have learned a great deal from their January struggles and has backed the Reds to come firing back at the business end of the season.

Jurgen Klopp’s side went through a miserable run at the start of 2017 that saw them knocked out of the FA and EFL Cups and only win one of their previous ten games going into last weekend.

Their title challenge looked dead in the water but Sadio Mane’s double in their 2-0 win over Tottenham has reinvigorated their season.

And Can is confident the Klopp influence will get them back on the straight and narrow in the coming months.

“He is a very positive guy and has been encouraging us and trying to help us have a positive frame of mind so that everybody believes and thinks positively again,” he said.

“We have had a lot of meetings and he tries to motivate us because he also knows that we cannot forget the good times we have had this season.

“We are fifth in the league – one point off fourth – which is not too bad in a strong league.

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“We know how quickly things can turn around in football. We have to stay together, be one team and look forward.

“Of course, after we had so many good times in the first half of the season, nobody thought that we would have a spell [like we had]. I think we can learn a lot from the past month and come back stronger.

“[The target has] always been to finish in the top four of the Premier League as we want to play in the Champions League next year. When you play for Liverpool, playing in the Champions League is always the target.”