Klopp on Liverpool 3-0 Brentford, Salah records and City game
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00:00 [PANTING]
00:02 Not so good with the tent. Not so good with the tent.
00:11 [LAUGHS]
00:13 Chris?
00:17 100 per cent. That's exactly it.
00:28 Losing a game, playing not too well, makes not a lot of sense.
00:32 When you think about the season, when you look back to other seasons,
00:36 there was no season where you won all your football games,
00:38 so if it happens you just have to take the right things out of it
00:42 and make the right conclusion.
00:44 And I'm really pleased that we used that opportunity to lose against Toulouse
00:53 and then reacting in the way we did today.
00:57 We'll never find out, but maybe we would have won at Toulouse
01:00 with a fantastic performance, and we struggled today completely against Brentford.
01:04 But it's absolutely possible, because you have these struggling moments
01:07 around set-pieces, you cannot avoid them.
01:10 The wind plays a part.
01:12 But how we controlled the moments we could control was absolutely exceptional.
01:18 All the moments when we could keep the ball on the ground,
01:22 when we could play football, when Darwin connected the game for us exceptionally,
01:26 we were super dangerous for them.
01:30 We scored wonderful goals, to be honest,
01:34 and it was a really good performance against one of the most difficult opponents you can face.
01:39 How pleased were you with the success of that?
01:46 It was a goal-perfect progression from Tino, obviously,
01:49 and you beat that guy first.
01:51 Yeah, but it's not only the centre-back's fault,
01:55 he played a really good game and it's super difficult.
01:57 I think the big chance Boomer had in the first half, the pass was already exceptional.
02:02 It was not a centre-half there, because after the set-piece and Trent was the one-one pass,
02:06 these situations could have happened much more often because they are just that good.
02:10 But generally the defending was really good,
02:15 and the stand-out in this defending was really Darwin.
02:21 Brentford wants to play long balls, it's one thing, but we need to know when,
02:28 and we can only influence that by one player.
02:31 When he started pressing from the centre, he had to go for the goalie without getting the ball,
02:35 he passed it to the centre-half, we followed that, the work rate was insane.
02:40 That was our problem today, obviously.
02:42 We had a very young bench and in a set-piece game,
02:46 with Harvey and then Lucho having the set-piece specialists to bring on,
02:55 it was a bit tricky, so it was clear that a lot of them have to play really, really long.
03:01 And because Brentford never change, they change details, but not the general plan.
03:08 One-nil down, no problem, two-nil down, Daniel, one set-piece and game on.
03:14 So we came through that period with six set-pieces, six corners,
03:19 I'm not sure that happened before they had six corners and didn't score.
03:23 It was just good focus, work rate, and then on top of that playing football
03:31 and overcoming...
03:33 Like a little Costa-Syriza example.
03:40 We all could see the difference between before the assist and after the assist,
03:46 that's football, that's life, it is helpful if you ever get positive feedback,
03:51 and the assist is obviously positive feedback, so very important.
03:55 A lot of players, actually all players, really performed on a top level today,
04:00 and I'm really happy with that.
04:02 Just a long salad here.
04:04 Well, deserved. Crazy.
04:09 The first six home games.
04:12 Oh.
04:13 The first six home games.
04:15 And goal number 200, right? For Liverpool.
04:18 200 goals.
04:20 And nobody celebrated the first or the second,
04:22 but giving 200 in the first moment, that's very strange.
04:26 Exceptional, just an exceptional player, played a super game today,
04:36 and we all know how difficult it is against these tall centre-backs,
04:39 centre-halves, two players around him, all these kind of things.
04:42 He kept the ball for us and we could play from there,
04:44 that was super important, and then scoring two goals.
04:47 We had so many good moments in the first half,
04:52 where we scored but it was offside and things like that,
04:55 and then in that moment the composure for the first goal is just insane.
05:00 There's no doubt if the ball is in that area,
05:06 in the end you see it on the score sheet.
05:09 So, pretty special player.
05:11 Paul Dries.
05:14 What do you make of all the statistics now?
05:22 Liverpool are sitting after the international break in second place,
05:26 it looks like it's gone to the very...
05:30 So strong this last season.
05:32 A footballer is strange.
05:39 You could have asked me three days ago, just about the feeling,
05:42 not about what I know about it, about the feeling.
05:45 Why should I talk about the start?
05:47 The start is the start and now we have to play Brentford.
05:50 It's exactly how I see it, but obviously you look at the numbers,
05:54 you look at the games, you look at the results,
05:56 most of the time it was OK or better.
05:59 Drawing a point at Luton didn't feel great,
06:04 the Tottenham game in the circumstances obviously didn't feel great.
06:08 Don't know the other games, so it's absolutely all right,
06:13 we just don't really think about it.
06:15 So today we had to get through this game, and we did.
06:19 The boys responded sensationally well.
06:22 Now they're all gone again and we come back and we can train once.
06:29 And play City.
06:31 OK, we won, nobody can say at the moment,
06:36 but how can you put the game like this on Saturday at 12.30?
06:40 Honestly, the people who are making these decisions,
06:43 they cannot feel football, it's just not possible.
06:47 If that's the moment where the world pays the most to see a football game,
06:53 nobody has to tell us. I don't know if that's the case or not, I really don't know.
06:57 But I think there would have been a moment where you could let these two teams,
07:01 who have altogether probably 30 international players,
07:05 they all come back in the same plane, by the way,
07:08 the South Americans sit on the same plane and fly back.
07:10 We pick them up, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia,
07:15 one game, one plane and then we arrive here, so it's really mad.
07:20 But it's the start of the season, and before the game against Man City
07:24 nobody will think about the start of the season,
07:26 because we just have to make sure we are ready for this game.
07:29 So it's alright, but not more.
07:32 Last one, Richard.
07:35 Jürgen, just following on from that,
07:37 obviously we don't know how City are going to do today,
07:40 but you're up to second in our cut, does that feel...?
07:44 Good.
07:45 Was that in your schedule?
07:47 No, I didn't know it was possible, I didn't think about it, but God told.
07:52 Yeah, it feels good. But it's November.
07:57 But it's really important that we have the points, similar to other teams,
08:02 because we obviously didn't play perfect football yet,
08:05 not even close, we fight our way through, we have good moments, lots of good moments,
08:09 we showed today a top reaction, it's all fine,
08:11 but in the end you have to keep going with all the other teams until March, April, whatever.
08:17 And if you are still there, then we can start talking,
08:21 until then it's just fight yourself through the most difficult league in the world.
08:27 Be ready on Thursday, be ready on Sunday, be ready on Thursday,
08:31 and if the Premier League has the opportunity to do it,
08:35 then be ready on 12.30 on Saturday, and then we do that.
08:39 Thank you, everyone.
08:41 Thank you.
08:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]