Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has explained how Jurgen Klopp forced him to ditch a habit he carried to Liverpool with him from Arsenal.
The Reds midfielder recently returned to action after over a year out with a serious, long-term knee injury and could feature when Klopp's side visit Newcastle on Saturday evening.
Oxlade-Chamberlain initially found it tough in the early months at Anfield but was arguably in the form of his career prior to the knee injury against Roma in April last year.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Telegraph , Oxlade-Chamberlain detailed how Klopp coached him in the final third in an attempt to gain more goals out of his attacking midfielder .
"The lessons I learned at Arsenal helped me in so many ways, but it did mean I had to adapt when I left," he said.
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"The emphasis was different there. More about trying to find a better option. That was Arsenal’s way and it had worked for them well.
"So, when I saw a run and heard a shout my instinct would be to play it. The boss hates that.
"He would say: 'I don’t watch you shooting all week [in training] to try to be (Andres) Iniesta and thread a pass.'
"He would scream at me ‘SHOOOOOT!’ It goes in or it misses but in his head it is, ‘So what? Mo (Sala) and Sadio (Mane) are running in.'"
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Oxlade-Chamberlain 's recovery hit a snag back in March when he was withdrawn after 41 minutes of a scheduled 45 for Liverpool 's Under-23s against Derby County.
The 25-year-old admitted he was conflicted when he first felt the problem during the game against the young Rams on March 8.
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He added: “I couldn’t come off. I had so many things running through my head: ‘You’re being an idiot. You are not a kid anymore.
"'If you feel anything, get yourself off’. But at the same time I was thinking: ‘I don’t want the headline’."
