Jurgen Klopp admitted that Aston Villa made his Liverpool side look ordinary as the league leaders had to come from behind to win 2-1 at Villa Park.

The Reds looked to be headed for defeat, before Andy Robertson and Sadio Mane scored in the final five minutes to seal yet another dramatic comeback.

It’s the kind of turnaround that Klopp will now be used to seeing from his team, but he revealed that the emotions he felt after the game were incomparable to anything else.

“The best possible in football,” he said. “You saw the routine, we’ve tried it before a couple of times. If you can use it in a very decisive moment… Sadio’s cross for Robbo’s goal was sensational too.

“We made it difficult for ourselves. We started playing football, good, but not exactly as we should have done. We conceded a goal, it wasn’t easy to change decisions of bad passes and so on.

“Second half we started much better. Then we could change twice. Shooting from distance from [Alex] Ox[lade-Chamberlain] helps massively, moving Sadio right, giving Ox half-space. Aston Villa will feel they deserved something.

“Because we had a couple of comebacks, I didn’t think today we’d do another one. But it’s possible. We don’t have any alternative (than to keep going). It would have been a tough game because of quality of Villa but we helped them.

“We got knocks, and in the moment so far we can sort it most of the time. When you score late is is ‘lucky’ but it’s not like we didn’t deserve to win.

“I didn’t like our body language in first half. We didn’t look like warriors. We were like… players.”

A couple of contentious decisions came into focus, with VAR overturning a Roberto Firmino goal for an incredibly marginal offside, and Sadio Mane being booked for an alleged dive in the penalty area.

Klopp, however, did not want to linger too long on either decision.

“When you see Mane back you can see it’s not a dive as there is contact. But it’s a yellow card given… and he still stayed in the game.

“We won 2-1 so the VAR is not that serious. It’s not the right way we sit here and want to laugh about it. Managers can get sacked for losing football games. I don’t want to make it bigger than it is, but we have to clarify it. Nobody is doing it on purpose.

“The analyst showed me it (Firmino’s disallowed goal). Sometimes it is in your favour, sometimes it isn’t. But we have to make sure the new system helps the game and not confuses it. That’s in the best interest of all of this.”

 

 

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