Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp wasn’t a contented man together with his Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Antonio Conte following their draw on Saturday night time.
Spurs held Klopp’s facet to a 1-1 draw within the tie staged at Anfield with the end result giving Manchester Metropolis who has performed a sport much less benefit within the Premier League title race.
Whereas Klopp praised his facet’s efficiency, he questioned Spurs’ method to huge video games in comparison with their very own league place after the sport.
“I am actually pleased with the efficiency and happy with the mentality we confirmed towards an extremely good opponent with a sport plan. We needed to win they usually sit again and do counter-attacks.
“I assumed we had a number of issues right this moment which have been on a very totally different degree. The counter-press was excellent. They scored their purpose and we needed to keep calm and improve the strain, in order that was an enormous problem, however we did it. We received the equalizer. It is clearly not the end result we wished, nevertheless it’s the efficiency we wished,” Klopp stated.
“I want we may have received this sport, however with all of the reward for Tottenham, a world-class crew – they sit again. They drew towards us, and received outcomes towards Man Metropolis and Chelsea. The sport plan works for these video games however they’re nonetheless fifth, in order that’s how it’s. Time losing, these sorts of issues, it makes it simpler for them. We wished three factors, that’s not so cool,” he continued.
Son Heung-min opened the scoring for Conte’s facet however finally noticed his purpose canceled out by Luis Diaz, whose deflected effort earned Liverpool a degree.
