“The only one to decide if you’re tired, is yourself and nobody else”, “if you think you’re tired then you’re tired”, “we decide about our situation”.
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“This is not the first time I lose a game you don’t have to lose”, he added. “If we do it right and win the ball back in these areas, it gives us a better chance”.
– This fixture last season was Steven Gerrard’s last home game as a Liverpool player. “But you have to work for it”. It is always when you are under stress. We didn’t show all we could tonight and that’s why we lost.
“I don’t want to speculate, but of course we hope that it’s not too serious”.
“Maybe not more running but to be more awake from the beginning, to be more clear”.
Sakho was seen leaving Anfield last night on crutches with his right knee in a brace and he indicated to reporters that he wasn’t sure how bad the injury was.
“We have to feel this, we have to keep this and then we will know why we don’t want this anymore”.
Instead, Klopp’s Reds must spend two weeks digesting and questions about their first loss in 13 games and first Klopp-era setback; one he describes as an “unnecessary” defeat.
Although City saw Wilfried Bony suffer a hamstring injury at Villa Park, they should have several key figures back to bolster their squad after the two-week interval.
Jurgen Klopp expressed his surprise at seeing a large number of Liverpool fans leaving Anfield after the 82nd minute goal from Scott Dann. He is not the quickest guy around but his positioning was exemplary, he read the game well, made interception after interception and threw himself in front of every ball headed towards the net.
‘We press very high with the intention of trying to make the other team lose the ball close to their goal.
Both teams were a bit cautious in the second half but Liverpool looked like the side to get the victor.
After Dann’s goal, Klopp would have expected “a surge towards the Kop”, he says, “the type of which have been described with such finery in all those history books”.
“The goal summed him up”.
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He’s such an impressive guy, I could listen to him talk all day. He can be really proud of his performance.
