Klopp on Liverpool's counter press in 4-2 Newcastle win as Salah departs

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00:00 That was a nice response, thank you very much.

00:04 No, it was good.

00:07 Everyone go first, no? Chris?

00:27 Jürgen, Mo Salah, a player who missed a penalty in the first half,

00:34 or comes out and puts on that goal in the second half, can you make it?

00:38 Yeah. Nobody should now be really surprised that Mo can change a game,

00:47 can improve in a game and all these kinds of things,

00:50 because he did it hundreds of times.

00:53 But it's just a really good example. The more goals you have,

00:57 the more you are used to missing chances, even when it's a penalty,

01:01 and the more you just understand what you have to do, keep going,

01:05 and if necessary, but very often is the case, keep improving,

01:09 using the situations better, and that was what Mo did.

01:13 Because I got asked that question plenty of times,

01:16 when we talk about Mo and again two goals, and then Darwin didn't score,

01:19 but to be honest, the situation of the game,

01:21 when you brought the game in the right direction, was the first goal of Mo.

01:25 When Darwin squares that ball, I would say everybody in the stadium,

01:29 you involved, would have tried to hammer that ball through the goalie,

01:33 just to make it happen.

01:35 And he squares that ball and it was the one-nil, right?

01:39 Yeah. So, incredible.

01:42 Yeah, super game, from start to finish, with 10 minutes in the first half,

01:49 OK, after 35 minutes, disallowed goal, missed the pen,

01:55 super high intensity, level dropped slightly,

02:00 got into the second half and started pretty much there,

02:05 but we finished after 35 minutes, scored the first, relieved too big, one-all.

02:11 Scored the second, scored the third, relieved too big, 3-2.

02:16 And I said a couple of times, "I like it really",

02:21 Pep came to me and said, "We need to bring Maka."

02:24 I think it was before the 3-2, I'm not sure, when Maka came,

02:27 "We need his passes."

02:29 Yeah, and then Maka came and passed the ball to Djoko.

02:35 So, obviously again, a really good game from start to finish,

02:39 and again, if you have these options to bring on, that's obviously pretty helpful.

02:45 I loved the game, I loved the atmosphere, everything was perfect,

02:51 besides the goals, obviously we conceded,

02:53 you could see it in Ali's face, especially that he didn't like that fact.

02:56 But we take that for tonight.

02:59 Yeah, keep going.

03:02 Lots of really good individual performances as well tonight,

03:09 you mentioned Mo, I thought Curtis Jones in particular,

03:15 the way he hit the game together, and how to get you on the front foot,

03:20 that was very impressive.

03:22 Special game from Curtis, to be honest.

03:25 His high press, his counter-press, we all know how good a player Curtis is,

03:31 he's technically incredibly skilled,

03:34 but he finds more and more direction in his dribbling,

03:37 he gets better out of situations, and his counter-pressing is meanwhile...

03:41 He sets the level, actually, how it should look.

03:47 Really happy with that, and he keeps every play in the game.

03:51 So, as I said, the counter-pressing we played today was absolutely exceptional.

03:57 It was a school video, we have to show it if we want to do it.

04:01 So, a lot of times people tell me that my behaviour is not great

04:06 and it's not good for grass-roots football,

04:08 OK, maybe the grass-roots team want to play counter-press

04:10 then watch the video of that game, so that is really helpful.

04:13 Yeah, you're right, so many good performances,

04:17 I cannot actually remember a bad one, to be honest, they were all really good.

04:22 But we had to be, because in the situations when we were not at 100 per cent,

04:28 you could immediately see the new cast was there,

04:30 but we made it really tricky for them tonight,

04:32 and it was a fully deserved three points.

04:36 Jürgen, I don't know if you pay so much emphasis on expected goals stats,

04:42 but that was the highest expected goal taken by any team ever in a Premier League game.

04:47 34 shots, 15 on target, what does that say to you?

04:52 I didn't have to look at the stats, because I saw it before, it was really special.

04:57 It was Dubrovka, but it was our side as well,

05:05 and that's why we needed these...

05:08 How I said, there were moments when we forced it,

05:12 when the technique was not great, but then there was a moment when Dubrovka had a top save,

05:17 and we scored twice, we squared the ball and put it in the empty goal,

05:23 so we didn't stop, that's the most important thing.

05:27 And I sat here a few weeks ago and spoke about the atmosphere.

05:34 Tonight's atmosphere was absolutely exceptional,

05:37 and how we all took together these missed chances, that's how the atmosphere is.

05:43 That's just how it is, because it was not like, "Oh, my God, what are they doing?"

05:47 And I would understand that in moments, but everybody was just really on fire,

05:52 "We go again, we go again, we go again," and we did.

05:56 We scored four goals, which is already an outstanding number.

06:00 Yeah, all good.

06:04 We wanted to take him off, it was the plan, but unfortunately it was a minute late,

06:17 because in the last situation he felt the arm strength,

06:22 and now we don't know the extent of it, obviously, so we have to wait.

06:26 Well done.

06:29 Thank you.

06:31 Good afternoon, yeah?

06:32 Good afternoon.

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