Liverpool boss Klopp always confident of victory at LASK

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22 Sep 2023 • 8:49 AM MYT
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was always confident of their Europa League victory at LASK on Thursday.

The Reds were 1-0 down at halftime, but eventually won 3-1 through Darwin Nunez's penalty and further goals from Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah.

Klopp said: "So obviously LASK had in the first half one shot on target and it was after a set-piece. We had very good moments but I saw the boys didn't feel that, it was not that we could gain confidence from our good moments and thought maybe we should do that again.

"But we suffered a lot from the lesser-good moments confidence-wise, frustration grew. That makes no sense; it's human but it makes no sense anyway.

"We showed two football situations from the first half where we did really well. I'm pretty sure the boys would have thought there was nothing good in the first half, but that's not true; we had good moments and that's what we showed and besides that I told them we had to get rid of the frustration and start getting back into the game again and we have a good chance to turn it around. And that's what we did. And I'm really happy because I knew it would be difficult, it was difficult. We won it, well deserved, that's it."

Of his young players on the night, Klopp was positive.

"If we would have used Ben Doak a little bit more often, given him the ball, I think he would have got the ball more times on the touchline and passed the ball inside or whatever. Stefan [Bajcetic] found a way into the game after a rather difficult start, but we caused him problems obviously with the timing of our passes.

"Ryan [Gravenberch] played a super game in really difficult circumstances and was really decisive for us. Ibou [Konate] could get 80 minutes I think, Stefan could get minutes. So there were so many positives and I am cheeky enough to be really happy about that game."