(Klopp’s thought on it being one of the best Liverpool performances from any of his teams...)
Yes, absolutely. I told the boys directly after the game I am super proud. Super, super proud. I think especially with 10 men they were really good... did everything what was necessary really well and on top of that we were really dangerous. We created still so that’s good, top for us; red card for Curtis, probably everybody here in the room thinks it's a clear red card, I see that different, just because I played football and most of you probably didn’t. Full power on the ball, rolls over the ball, then hits the decisive part of the leg. When you see it in slow motion it looks horrendous. I think when you see it in real time it's not even close to being that bad. So, it's a red card, but Curtis didn't do it not even close to being on purpose. For me it's really important that nobody starts thinking that we had so many red cards, so we are a kicking team, we are not, we don't.
First red card from Alexis [against AFC Bournemouth] was not a red card, we had to play already I don't know how long with 10 men, second [for Virgil van Dijk at Newcastle United] is for a normal foul I would say, third is now for that situation and the fourth I will never understand. How many games can you remember 11 versus nine? I watch a lot of football. It just doesn't happen that often and we are not in the game and kicking Tottenham players. We are trying to play football. We defended, yes, but the two situations, the first I think is clear not a yellow. The second then I didn't see actually back, but it's not important because if the first is not a yellow then maybe the second is not and we still play with 10 men.
So, that made everything difficult, but the boys made really the most of it, it was incredible. [The] mentality we showed was second to none; never saw something like that. That's top, top, top. Now people might think because of this very, very unlucky own goal... that we didn't get anything out of the game. I see that differently. I think I learned so much about my team, much more than [if] we would've won here and it been a bad performance. It was a really outstanding performance in a specific way. We didn't get any points from it but we will use it anyway. That's the plan.
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