Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was pleased with the performance in their 4-1 win over Brentford but concerned as his side picked up several possible injuries in the game
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00:30 Jürgen, normally you'd be absolutely delighted with a 4-1 win.
00:34 I still am.
00:36 Would it come at a cost today?
00:38 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, but we have to see how much it costs us,
00:44 we don't know that yet.
00:46 Curtis got a knock a little bit below, on the lower part of his chin,
00:51 above the ankle, we'll see what that means,
00:54 but he wasn't 100 per cent sure.
00:57 That Curtis Cannell play-on tells you it must be something,
01:01 because he would have played on at all costs, actually.
01:06 Djoko looks probably the worst, I didn't see it back,
01:09 but I heard the pictures didn't look great as well, so we have to see there.
01:14 And Darvin, we had to take...
01:18 Or we took off, because he said he feels "un poco", really little,
01:24 but that was obviously enough today to immediately push the break,
01:28 so I took him off and brought Cody, so that worked out really well.
01:32 Yeah, that's not great, we can talk about that part of the game,
01:36 that's really not good, but we cannot change that anymore.
01:40 We can talk about the other part,
01:42 because probably all the thoughts you might have had in this situation
01:46 the players could have had as well,
01:48 the performance level could have dropped or whatever,
01:51 but it was the other way around.
01:53 We played an exceptional game, by far the best game since I'm at Liverpool,
01:57 here at Brentford, by far.
01:59 Dealing with all the specific situations they create,
02:05 and being as dominant as you can somehow be,
02:10 be calm in the right moments, be direct in the right moments,
02:15 use their man-marking, play against the line,
02:18 and all these kind of things, I saw a top game, honestly.
02:22 Obviously the first 10, 15 minutes, I don't know exactly,
02:25 they had these counter-attacks and they looked really good,
02:28 I liked that as well, when Tony and Mo Pah-pum-pum, and they're gone.
02:32 We had to adapt our protection obviously in these moments,
02:35 did that, then that was gone, but the set-pieces were still there.
02:39 If you see the stats, we committed 18 fouls,
02:42 something seems not to be right there.
02:45 And that's it. Very good game in strange circumstances,
02:52 but we are still really happy with the result.
02:55 Jürgen, all five of your forwards contributed to goals today,
03:03 is that perhaps one of the most pleasing?
03:06 I know it's a big win...
03:08 I'm not surprised about that, to be honest, Mo played the first game for weeks,
03:13 I'm not sure, I think he could have had a hat-trick.
03:17 The first one, Lucio kicks the ball against his right foot or whatever,
03:21 and then the other one, Mo usually finishes it off,
03:24 but the goal he scored was absolutely outstanding.
03:27 They all play good, they are all good players,
03:32 we have just to make sure Cody's goal was absolutely outstanding as well.
03:36 That's all cool, but you can count as well the games coming up,
03:41 so it would be helpful if we have a bit more than one for each position,
03:46 and we have to see how we deal with that now, but it's all fine,
03:50 that's the situation, we cannot change that.
03:53 I can remember one day, since I'm in, where it was like...easy,
03:57 no problems at all or something like that.
04:00 So we have problems, probably, we don't know exactly how big they are,
04:04 but as long as we have 11 players we will go for it.
04:08 And the next one is on Wednesday, and the next press conference,
04:11 we do have a press conference before Luton, we don't do that today.
04:14 So then people will tell me, "Yeah, the weekend is a final,
04:18 "what do you think about that?"
04:20 Maybe you save that question for somebody else, so they don't get angry.
04:24 Because we cannot think about it, it's just not that.
04:27 We have to play Luton, they deserve and will get all our attention and respect.
04:32 And after that we will see how we can play the next game.
04:37 Can I just clarify that Curtis Jones is on crutches?
04:41 Yeah, but that's normal. I didn't speak to him, I don't have time,
04:45 I more or less get carried around here in the stadium to have interviews and stuff like this.
04:51 I don't know how it developed during the second half,
04:55 because the second half was alright-ish, but I don't know what happened since then.
05:01 Jürgen, I can't imagine how tough the last few weeks have been for Conor Bradley,
05:05 but for him to come back in the side and perform like that,
05:08 you must be incredibly proud of him.
05:10 I am. I am over the moon about him.
05:13 Yes, you are right, pretty special, very, very special.
05:16 I bet he was special before that week, and he's now pretty special.
05:20 He played an exceptional game.
05:22 So we had the situation again with changes, who do we take off?
05:25 Is it Robbo, who played the second game in a row pretty much,
05:28 and after a long, long break, or is it Conor?
05:32 It's out in the end for Conor, Robbo can maybe manage it with his experience slightly better.
05:37 Yeah, very impressive, absolutely.
05:41 Just on Khabib Kala, was there a bit of temptation for him to play in the lead
05:47 of these two lead matches before the final,
05:50 given that he's going to play in that one,
05:52 or is that just a positive you have to take out of the situation?
05:56 Ali was ill last week and is injured this week,
05:59 I have absolutely no other ideas behind it.
06:02 If Ali wouldn't have been ill and wouldn't have been injured now,
06:05 Ali would have played.
06:07 So, no, we've had enough games already this year to have a kind of rhythm,
06:11 so goalies are a different breed to other people,
06:14 so they keep that good...
06:16 No, it was not in my plans to play him Luton or whatever.
06:19 How sad, we played a game, we play with all focus and all attention,
06:23 and don't think about other things.
06:26 That might not be the smartest way, it's just the only way I know.
06:30 But he was outstanding, he was outstanding.
06:35 I don't know exactly who is the number one at Ireland,
06:39 but if they have better goalies than him I have to say, "Respect."
06:43 He's outstanding, and this year we gave him more games than he had previously,
06:51 that's well deserved, because we need him and we need him with rhythm,
06:56 and now the situation around Ali shows that that makes absolutely sense.
07:00 We will see how long Ali is out, but Kweef is exceptional,
07:04 and today he was... Wow. That was an A-plus performance.
07:09 Last one here.
07:11 Jürgen, after the game you shared a really nice moment with Ivan Toni,
07:14 what did you say to him there?
07:18 Why? What did I tell him?
07:21 I was more smiling at him, he's obviously quite a handful and really tricky.
07:26 I use a different word, but it's really tricky to play against him, obviously.
07:30 Am I right that he's a Liverpool supporter?
07:34 He's not shy to say that? Yeah, I can admit it as well.
07:38 We spoke a little bit about that, and he wished me good luck for my time after.
07:44 These things here... A lot of players say that, it's not necessary, but it's nice anyway.
07:51 But nobody has to worry, I will find something, a place to watch Wembley.
07:56 So that was a nice conversation, we had with Janne as well.
08:01 That's the strange thing in football, this is probably one of the nicest teams,
08:08 coaching stuff, everything you can face, you play against them,
08:11 you don't want to knock them down every five seconds, because it's just annoying.
08:15 And it's really like that, because everything is set up to make you really look rubbish.
08:22 But around that, it's a great club, I like everything about it, just not playing them.
08:29 Thank you very much.
08:30 Thank you.
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