Jürgen Klopp
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Thank you very much.
Yeah, we lost the game in the first half, not only because we conceded the goal, it can happen like this, but because we didn't keep the positions we wanted to be in.
It was not a good game in a lot of parts of the game.
Yeah, we wanted to do it differently and obviously it didn't work out, or it didn't happen on the pitch, but it was for us obvious why it was not that.
In the half-time we said, OK, maybe we can start now doing what we wanted to do from the beginning,
It was still because they were confident, they had no chances, no shots really, and a few half counter-attacks, but we won the ball pretty quick back because the first half we were not that secure in the things we did, not that confident, it didn't look like it should look in situations like that.
But we had the moments where we didn't score, because of course the pressure is getting more and more each minute,
the clearest chance, yes, we have in the last second, more or less.
I don't know how that then happened that the ball is not in, but even, yes, a point would have been for sure OK, but not what we wanted before the game, to be honest, and so even that wouldn't have made the game any better, to be honest.
It was not an attitude problem.
I know the challenge was about... The attitude was not the problem, it was like...
Discipline in football are different things, so it's about being good organised in defence, but playing from the positions in the offensive moments where you have to play.
We played this similar line-up very often meanwhile, but we didn't play from the position, so we were running around because there was no pressure, they were waiting around the box and we were running in the close areas and we wanted to play one-twos.
High speed in this area is then not too cool, but we had to be forced one or two situations, we had Mo in front of the goal, we had Sadio, we had Joel, I think, in one situation.
So that's all OK, but if you are not at your best, then keep a clean sheet, 100 per cent, but then we conceded a goal that was like, OK, of course, that was what we were all waiting for.
But the goal was the problem in...
and that kind that, of course Swansea had what they wanted, and we didn't, and you could see that in the game, the whole stadium celebrated pretty much each challenge they won, so that's how it should be in a situation like that, and we had to play football, and that's then if you don't start well, we spoke before the game about a good start, but then you have plenty of opportunities to restart the game if you want,
at least at half-time, but in the end it wasn't good enough.
It's a formation thing, we needed Robbo higher, what we wanted from the beginning, we needed Mo Salah, the wing, opening the channel for Oxlade-Chamberlain, we needed then Sadio more in the half-space, and that's all clear, and then you build up with...
It's not complicated, but it makes a big difference.