Jurgen Klopp
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So the result is now OK, so what we wanted before the game obviously, but in the game it developed like this that we have to be happy now that we get the point, because they were for a long time bonded up.
The performance was...
We had good moments in the second half, the first half I didn't like, obviously, because we gave Man United the opportunity to do what they wanted to do, just being aggressive, having challenges everywhere, put us under pressure.
It's football, but you have to pass these lines, you have to pass the ball through the lines, the opportunities were there, we didn't see them.
They were better in the game than we were,
for what they wanted to do.
So they defended well, but at the end they scored a goal, which shows really all the problems with VAR.
Because Miss Atkinson, I'm sure, let the game run because things were VAR, and the VAR says, yeah, there was contact, it was a foul,
when you saw it differently, then it's 100 per cent, it's like this, 100 per cent, because for me it was a clear foul, we take that, we cannot change that any more, it's just the situation, it's just a general problem, so that the VAR looks at it and says, oh, you decided like this, that's possible, because foul or no foul, but it was a foul and they didn't decide it, but our fault, they were like 60, 70 yards to run until they scored the goal, but anyway, it's of course not cool, then we scored a goal which was disallowed,
But pretty much everything went against us today, and we still didn't lose, so that's OK.
We deserved the point 100 per cent in the last 15 minutes, we were in charge of the game 100 per cent, no counter-attacks anymore and all that stuff.
I'm not sure how many shots they had on target or in general how many shots they had, but of course we want a different result, for a different result you have to play better, and we didn't do that, so only for 20, 25 minutes we played well.
That's not enough to win the game, that's it.
It was not about confidence, it was more about...
It's more about momentum.
They had it because they were purely there today to defend us.
If you set up a team like Man United, with the quality they have, and make them just defending this and then we have a ball and then James is going or Rashford is going, that's really difficult.
We should have done much better, but it's obviously the easier thing to do, to play like this,
past Rudi's lines, but because of that they had the momentum and so we never really got it back in the first half.
Second half then it was better, we changed a little bit, just had it a bit higher, then Young was fixed there, then Trent had all the balls, we could have done more and better with them.