'This is why I came to LFC'

The full-back's start to life on Merseyside has seen his new team win five games on the bounce in the opening weeks, with late drama involved in all.

On this latest occasion, against Spanish opposition in the Champions League, Virgil van Dijk produced the winner with 92 minutes on the clock to take the three points from the league-phase opener.

The skipper's heroics were required after a Marco Llorente brace cancelled a quickfire double from Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah that put the Reds 2-0 up inside six minutes.

Afterwards, Frimpong spoke to Liverpoolfc.com to offer his reaction to a dramatic night – read on for the interview...

Jeremie, very well done. How do you put into words a fifth game in a row with a late, late winner?

It's part of football, sometimes you score [in the] last minute. I've had a lot of last-minute [goals] in my career so far, obviously with Leverkusen. But the most important thing is that we won. I think we deserved to win. We were the better team, played really well.

When late goals happen that often, it's about more than luck, isn't it? It's about quality, perseverance, character...

Exactly. In a match you never know when you're going to score. Of course in football you'd like to score earlier but sometimes it doesn't work like that. Like I said, it's part of football. Sometimes you score late, sometimes you score early. It's just like that.

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It was such a great start from the team, so were the boys frustrated in the manner that it sort of slipped away from them?

Of course. I feel like when you're 2-0 up, of course we want to keep the lead or score more. But it's the Champions League, we're playing Atletico Madrid, of course we can do better to stop it but it's football.

It feels like things are slowly starting to fall into shape as the link-up play is getting better and a lot of that is with your good friend Florian Wirtz at the heart of that. How much more is there to come from him?

He's just getting started. Obviously I've been with him for four years in Leverkusen, so I know what he can do. I'm seeing that. It's coming. There's a lot more to see from him.

On a personal note, how much more is there to come from you and this group as a whole?

I feel like we're doing good right now, we won all our games. Football is about winning. Of course we can play better but at the end of the day if you play better and you lose, no-one is going to care about that. So, football is [about] winning. Of course we can play better but the most important thing is winning. To win trophies, you have to win. Of course play good as well but you need to win and score goals.

Just finally, in terms of the position that you're in, how pleased are you personally with the start the team has made?

This is why I came to Liverpool. Liverpool is a winning team, they know how to win trophies and that's what I want to do.

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