The Liverpool coach praised the good performance of Nacho in front of the press
Klopp: “You have to play for 95 minutes like in the first half”
Jurgen Klopp, coach of the Liverpool, assured that “right now” the tie is finished, but he warned that there are three weeks left for the return at the Santiago Bernabéu.
“I think the tie is over right now. We’ll see in three weeks. A loss is a loss, what I tell the players is that they have to learn from it. We have to improve a lot, but we have to take the good things with us too, now we have a difficult game against Crystal Palace and there are three weeks left for the return,” Klopp said at a press conference.
Asked about the keys to defeat, Klopp mentioned the entry of Nacho Fernandez as one of the most important moments. “Nacho came out and was incredible. That’s why he has been playing for Real Madrid for so many years. Because of that defensive level,” added the German coach.
“Our start to the game was impressive. We were in a bubble. Exactly how we wanted to start. Then they scored on us. We give away five goals. The first goal we were very passive, we did not chase them. The second was a mistake. It shouldn’t happen, but it can happen. 3-2, as we defended, is not right. It was already 3-2 and that result doesn’t help against a team that is fantastic on the counterattack.”
“They gained a lot of confidence and they scored good goals for us. One from a rebound, that’s what it is. We couldn’t recover the course of the game any further. You have to play during the 95 minutes as in the first part. You have to keep the ‘momentum’, we lost it and we can’t get it back.”