Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits Manchester City were the better team for Saturday's 1-1 draw.
Klopp, however, was pleased with his players on the day.
He explained, 'For us I think we passed a test today, I'm not sure it was the test. If that makes sense. In a business where nobody has time, it's really difficult to ask for it and to use it. Last year when the team had played long together much longer than this team now we had no real chance in this game. Today we had a chance. I'm not silly, I see the game, so if you ask me who would have won the game more likely, it was City obviously. But we had our moments and we won games with lesser chances against City, to be honest, from counter-attacking and if we could have used them better then it would have been a very interesting game.
"We don't check if we are as good as City. We want to be ready in these games to give them a proper game, and that's what we did today. It's not that I look at ourselves and think, 'OK, that's the finished article, that's how we can play' because I saw a lot of performances I was not overly happy with; the attitude was still good, but the performance.
"But it's a super-difficult week, how can you judge that? Ten days away, coming back, one training [session] and the most difficult game. It's really tricky. So, I'm not here to tell now, 'We should have done that better.' I take what I get and work from here, and that's what we do."
