Jürgen Klopp press conference: ‘I’m really pleased with the result’

On the importance of scoring the first goal…

Super-important. Goals decide football games and it was today the same thing. Look, if you look at the game, and in football a lot of things can happen, but if you really look at it and you think, ‘Who deserves to win that game?’ it was one team and it was us, however we got there. These boys played an extreme number of football games during that first part of the season already and we will play [more]. We go home and play on Saturday again, so it’s all tricky.

We have to get through this. If I sit there and go into each point and say, ‘You have to do that better, you have to do that better and do that better.’ We have to get through this, we have to fight through this, like everybody else, and that’s what we will do. When we get kind of a good feeling, where results really help, then you don’t feel the intensity that much, that’s how it…