Jürgen Klopp
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I told him the best game to do it was this one, because we won it, so it's all fine.
Now we know that, now we tick that box as well.
Don't play all the balls to Alisson, and if then he shoots the ball.
But how cool he was after that, when the crowd tried to make him a bit nervous, which is of course normal, that was then really absolutely OK and we still could use him.
Yeah, his goal, that's how it is, but no problem with that.
Apart from that, defending good, they had maybe one more chance, maybe a second, but not really.
We had the biggest with Mo, probably when Bobby and Schmeichel made a save in the first half and then Mo didn't hit the target.
Things happen, they're all human beings and I'm fine with that.
Somebody would have told me four weeks ago, do you have 12 points after four games?
I said, I buy it.
Whatever goal difference you want to have, 78, 77, I take it.
So now we have it with a better goal difference, and having 12 points and knowing that you have to improve and knowing that you can improve, it's good.
Because the start of the game was like we wanted to play, and then obviously in the moment we are not yet stable enough, so that's what we were working on.
We changed first the system, didn't work too well out because we didn't defend good anymore, so that's the problem, and then we wanted to go back to the actual system and then bringing fresh legs in, and Hendo was the first game from the start, and the weather was unbelievable, it was like...
It's jumping from autumn to summer back, and it was really intense, in that game especially, so it was clear from the start that we probably have to change Hendo, that's what we did.
Not really problems before the game, I wouldn't say that, but we spoke about this a little bit, and then in these moments of course it's really difficult to sub.
because you're always thinking, especially when you're one goal up, one counter-attack and he's in, but in this moment I thought we need the more physical players, and a fresh Shaqiri in this situation can help as well.
Yeah, when I thought it worked out, to be honest, we got the game a bit back in these situations, we won more challenges again, we won more balls, we could have... It was smart how then Leicester stopped our counter-attacks with a little foul here, a little foul there, so I would like to see these situations without a foul and then we are with three in front of the goal.
All absolutely fair and absolutely OK.
So, how's that?