Jürgen Klopp
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No, our performance was not how it should be.
It's the first clean sheet, so yippee.
But that's actually all what I'm happy about.
Yes, in one kind of course, only because now we had a kind of...
We had the rhythm, we had the movements, patterns, all that stuff, and of course we had to change.
Emery couldn't train the last two days with back problems, so very important sessions after the international break all together that he couldn't make with us.
Phil played the position in the last game, I think, in the second half when we changed Lallana.
But that's not the reason, it's one reason of course, but it is not possible and not allowed that when we have, I don't know, these ten players then we can play our football.
That's not a problem, it wasn't a problem.
No, we lost really, we weren't calm enough, there were spaces, and when you defend like Man United, that's their style, that's absolutely OK, but that forced something like respect in the other team, but then you need to be cool and then you pass the ball to the next player and then he's free, and we played these risky passes in the first half where we could have...
I think one situation where Phil then played to Daniel but Milly was completely free and things like this.
Sadio could have played an easy ball to Kleine, could make a cross, we had a good possession for the second ball and all that stuff, so it was always close too, but in the end we couldn't grow up confidence in the first half, it was always hectic, this direction, this direction.
It was a crazy game and that's not the way we want to play,
More and more, minute by minute, I accept it.
We got a point against Man United.
I heard about worse things in the world and it's OK, but we will analyse it and we go on.
That's their kind of play with Fellaini and Pogba and these one-on-one situations and these little fouls and all that stuff, that's not a problem, that's how it is, that's how football is, so they want to win, they want to take a point, or all three, I don't know, and that's absolutely OK what they did, but we have to use it then, that's the strength, what was the strength of them, we have to use it,
we can make it in a weakness, change it in a weakness, and that's what we didn't do.
But it's still very early in the season and we started playing a few months ago, so obviously today we couldn't bring it through, that's one part of the truth.
I don't know, now we are really happy in this moment, and apart from the last situation I saw a second before, a big chance for Swansea, the second half was like the whole game should have been.