He explained that it “makes no sense” to “suffer under your own ball possession” and said that it wasn’t that his team “didn’t want it” because “six or seven times”, Philippe Coutinho “alone” was in “the right position to shoot”.
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“It was a hard game for us”.
Andre Gray seized on a loose Nathaniel Clyne pass inside two minutes to set up Sam Vokes for a powerfully-struck opener and provider turned goalscorer with a well-taken finish following a break from record-signing debutant Steven Defour.
Klopp admitted that they “saw the situations coming around the goals” and insisted that it “doesn’t mean that you should concede goals in these situations”.
“I respect this but usually in a game like this, we win, if we don’t make mistakes in the wrong moment”.
“There’s life here, but it takes time. But our timing and decision making really was not good”. In the last moments, we were not where we should have been and that was a little bit of the problem, in the box, around the box.
“He’ll get used to that with the way we train and work”.
“It feels unreal to score my first Premier League goal”, he said.
“I think Burnley created two chances and they scored two goals”, he said.
“I thought in patches they were very good, very strong but we came out with a game plan that worked today”.
“It was a myth that came out about five years ago that possession wins you games and Leicester disproved that last year”.
“Leicester proved that wasn’t the case a year ago”.
“We know we lost a game in which we had 80 per cent possession today but there are different ways to play football”. “We’d put in a good cross but there were no bodies in the box and then when we had bodies in the box we ended up shooting”.
“We contained them and kept them to long shots really, and I was pleased with the organisation”. But that doesn’t win you the game.
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“It takes concentration and focus from the players to see through that and see they’re not hurting us that much and that we will have breakaways and counters”. While I certainly applaud the pundits who made the unconventional prognostications placing the Reds back in UEFA Champions League, I was not one of them.
