Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool were far from their best in Sunday’s Premier League clash with Luton Town.
Substitute Luis Diaz equalized in the 95th minute to give the Reds a point in the incident at Kenilworth Road. Luton took the lead in the 15th minute when Tahit Chong headed home Alisson Becker following a counter-attack.
Read the summary of Klopp’s post-match press conference…
When Diaz scores… We must say that it is amazing, emotional and fantastic. But the real problem has not yet been solved. We wanted to distract Lucho a little bit from other things and he wanted that too.
He can’t do anything, he’s always waiting, the whole family is always waiting. So he’s had a few training sessions with us now and he’s feeling good, so I think that’s good. I think the signals from Colombia are very positive and optimistic.
But one thing we all want to hear is that it hasn’t happened yet. He hasn’t trained much and we don’t know when we’ll get him. The match clearly favors the other attacking player. With his quality, when you put him in for 15, 20 minutes, you don’t know exactly how long he plays and that’s really good because he scores goals.
That’s great. What he said to Diaz after the goal…In fact, there was no need to say anything after the match. We embrace each other. We know how well it is, but we are waiting for the right news. That’s it.
We had moments like this too. I understand 100% that this is a beautiful story and a very positive and amazing story for him. But these things pass. The specific information we need is other information. This is correct. But still, it’s great for him. But all other issues remain the same.
dangerous…Strange game. Strange feeling after the match. I think we should have won, but a draw (a decent result) could have led to a loss, so I guess that’s it.
Credit to Luton, they did really well, but even with everything they did, we created chances and didn’t finish them with the last penalty, to be 100 per cent honest. We were not calm enough in these moments. We should have scored, we should have created, but first of all it was good. I’ve done enough.
Add one or two and you can win 1-0 or 2-0. very good. Nobody won here with crazy results. I knew why before, but now I feel like I’m doing a really good job. But what I didn’t like, especially in the first half, was that our counter-press rate was 0.0%, and to be honest, I take that personally.
I told the boys it wasn’t right. But since we know they really want to do it, the question is: why haven’t they? So I have to organize it. But I probably do not do it and it is probably not a missile science, but a look back.
I have plenty of time to do it.I told the kids at recess. Okay, okay, okay, keep calm, be patient, be patient. Something like that, I think it would be helpful if we put some pressure on her now. Because there are still many.
There is an ownership phase, a long ownership phase [and] there is less organization at these times. If so, we all know. We’ve seen games like this before, but time doesn’t make things any clearer. When you get 1 point, a small hole will appear.
It’s 0-0 and according to Luton’s ideas, that’s fine, there’s no problem here. Pieces and counterattacks remain in the game, so you need to confirm in advance that they are no longer in the game. In the game.
They counterattacked and scored and everyone knows whether they should have won the ball or not lost it on the 18m line. Then they scored and we equalized.
I have a lot of respect for what they do, but the way they defend is set up defensively… Looking back, it’s tough. It’s not on the edge, it’s down, so why change it if you’re not punished? charming.
It’s not when we thought we were possible. Virgil’s opponent gets it before you take it. I don’t think it’s a good score in the struggle. That’s great.
About Darwin Nunez…
All five of our strikers are a team, they are all a team. There are so many games that you can’t play them all. This is. One has a little problem, hopefully the other four will be healthy, then we will find three to start together and one will join. And then we have young children or Harvey can make different decisions there. The same goes for Darwin. So Darwin is 100% on the team. Sometimes restarting is not possible. It is, but then it happens. His first chance was very well done, it was a great pass. I think he hit the first spike and put it in the crossbar. And the same thing happens in other cases.
