00:11Dominic has just said that tonight as a group you showed the right direction where you want to go.
00:16How do you see it particularly as well as a response after Sunday?
00:21From start to finish I think we played the game I was hoping for, the players were hoping for and
00:27the fans were hoping for.
00:29Not only we played from start to finish the perfect game, our fans as well, because from the start they
00:36were not accepting what we thought would happen.
00:39What happened was that they were trying to create a situation where the energy would run out of the stadium
00:47by making sure there was not much playing time.
00:50But our fans reacted great to that and our players kept on going.
00:54So, great dynamic between fans and players and almost the perfect game from us but definitely from our fans.
01:04Obviously I have to ask about Mo because the unusual bit was him asking to be substituted.
01:11But before that he had obviously become the first African to score 50 goals in the Champions League as well.
01:15So your reaction to him reaching that landmark and I take it, is he okay?
01:20No, first of all it says a lot about him that after you miss a penalty just before half-time
01:26that can sometimes be hard for an individual or for a team.
01:30So a compliment to the team for how we came out in the second half because we've had a lot
01:35of setbacks this season.
01:36We've had a lot of first halves or second halves where we created chance after chance after chance without doing
01:42justice to how we performed.
01:44So not scoring.
01:45And then Mo and the team came out in the second half the way they did.
01:50So he assisted first to Hugo, great assist, and then scored a trademark goal I think,
01:56which he scored many of in this stadium but for this club, coming inside, finding the top corner.
02:02So that tells you a lot about his mental strength of him but definitely also of the team
02:08because adversity is something we can talk about when it comes to this season.
02:14Injury-wise though?
02:15Injury-wise he was asking for a substitution, not because he thought he had scored enough but he felt something.
02:24So let's see where he is for the weekend and afterwards.
02:30Just get your thoughts as well on facing Paris Saint-Germain again, albeit around later than last season.
02:36Yeah, if you go to the latter stages of the Champions League, you know one thing for sure that you're
02:41going to face Paris Saint-Germain
02:42because it's an incredible team.
02:44We've experienced that last season when we faced them away from home.
02:48Very, very, very difficult game.
02:50Here at Anfield we played, now I said tonight, a perfect game.
02:54Here at Anfield we played also a fantastic game.
02:56This is, I've said a lot of times how great of a match it was.
03:00The best game I've managed in my career.
03:02Maybe not in result but how football should be played.
03:05Both teams just playing football, just wanting to enjoy the fans, to entertain the fans.
03:12We were the only team that brought them to extra time, the only team that brought them to penalties.
03:15But that team has shown this season that they haven't dropped their level.
03:21And we showed tonight that we can still perform at the level.
03:24We were performing large parts of last season so it gives me a lot of confidence that we have this
03:31performance.
03:32But it's not the first one this season, we've had more of them, especially in Europe.
03:37And we have to try to find the consistency.
03:39Although I can already spoil or disappoint people, this performance is hardly impossible to copy that one more time.
03:47Because 5.02 xG on a Champions League night with conceding 0.18, I think.
03:56That's not going to be easy to copy that one more time.
04:04How grateful are you to the fans for the atmosphere in terms of the noise and positivity tonight?
04:09How grateful are you?
04:10Yeah, very grateful.
04:11I think I've said many times that we've lost twice against them because they are a good team,
04:16but definitely also because their fans were so, so, so helpful for them in their stadium.
04:22And I think it's fair to say now that Anfield has created an even bigger atmosphere.
04:28The atmosphere tonight was unbelievable, as it has been so many times here at Anfield on European nights.
04:34I've experienced a few, you probably even more.
04:39And this was all we could ask for from the players, but definitely also from the fans.
04:43From the first time they tried to kill the momentum, our fans raised their voices even more.
04:51And I think that combination was very important tonight.
04:55That's why I was maybe a bit more energetic than I usually are,
04:58because we should not – we have to fight this together, this – what we saw tonight.
05:09Richard?
05:10Just on Mo and the tactics, it looked like you were using him more infield today.
05:15Can you sort of talk through what your thinking was there?
05:17Was it to get him in the box more?
05:20Well, the thinking not only about motive thinking, it's about a lot of things.
05:26You always try to prepare your team in a way that can help them during the game,
05:33but I think tonight is not about tactics.
05:35It's mainly about the work they've put in, the support we got from the fans.
05:39And then, of course, tactics can help.
05:44But this work rate, this intensity, this combination of play is always more important than tactics.
05:53But, unfortunately, we've played this tactic before, Frankfurt away, Inter Milan away and some other games.
06:00But usually this season, Dan, we've got a player injured, we couldn't do it again,
06:05because then we miss out on a certain type in a certain position.
06:09So, we've used this tactic before, but unfortunately, even tonight with Joe Gomes,
06:15couldn't play.
06:16Not really helpful, of course, when I had to take Jeremy Fimpongov.
06:20But Curtis, again, did a great job.
06:22This has been our season, that every time when we think we find a system
06:25or we think we find the right style of play, then someone gets injured,
06:29and then we don't have the similar fit.
06:32So, we have to adapt and change again.
06:35But, yeah, that's part of being a manager.
06:41So, yeah, you can't complain about that.
06:44You mentioned you being quite energetic on the touchline.
06:47It's maybe the most animated that I've seen you as Liverpool manager.
06:51So, obviously, the atmosphere helps the players as well.
06:55But for you, how much did you enjoy that tonight,
06:57to be in that connection between yourself, the players, the fans?
07:00How special?
07:01I think it was mainly the connection between the players and the fans.
07:05I hope that the fans were more focused on how the players played
07:08than what I was doing down the line.
07:11But at a certain moment, enough is enough.
07:14I've faced it now far too many times that we are trying to create momentum,
07:20we're trying to play, and then someone is on the floor again for half an hour.
07:24And enough is enough.
07:28So, I thought I had to do something about it.
07:30I've tried it many times to go to the fourth official to say,
07:33are you aware?
07:34Are you aware?
07:34Are you aware now?
07:35Never ever this season we got the extra time that we deserved.
07:39So, that's why I said what I said to the fans before the game.
07:43We have to create something to fight this together
07:47because this is very difficult
07:50because it's not a tactic I can do something against
07:53except for running around like a lunatic down the line maybe.
07:57So, maybe we have to do this more often.
08:01But I hope, I hope, it gets noticed more and more by the people
08:07who have to do something about it.
08:08Oh, Joyce.
08:11Are you okay? Just pass the mic.
08:15I want to ask Turkish.
08:21Emrah Okta, Anadolu Ajansi.
08:48Yes, I think it was helpful because Oshiman is an unbelievable player for them.
08:54But, if I looked at the first ten minutes
08:56and I looked at how Ibu, Konatay and Virgil were playing,
08:59I would have completely trusted them 90 minutes against Oshiman tonight as well.
09:04Because we were at it, the rest of the team made sure he wasn't even,
09:10they couldn't play balls towards him.
09:12But, he has shown in his career so many times that he can score from out of nowhere.
09:18So, yeah.
09:19It's never nice to see a player being injured,
09:22but he has a big influence on Kalata's right performances.
09:28Yeah.
09:29I think it was a different performance from us than the two times we played them in their stadium.
09:36But, that's also because it's helpful to have your own fans
09:41and it's also helpful to get the lead instead of conceding in both games quite early
09:47when we played away from home.
09:48You can get the mighty cross.
09:51We do one at the back and then James' last one at the front.
10:05Serdar Kelleci.
10:06Tebrik ediyorum.
10:08Liverpool'un özellikle ilk Crystal Palace ligin başında oynanan maçta da,
10:13yüksekte bir savunma ile karşılaştığında problem yaşadığı.
10:17Ama üçüncü bölgeye yerleşip,
10:19rakiplerin savunma çizgisini on beşinci, yirminci metreye çizdirdiği zaman
10:23çok etkili bir Liverpool'u izliyoruz.
10:26Arne Slot'un bununla ilgili şifresine,
10:30çünkü Liverpool üçüncü bölgeye yerleştiği zaman özellikle çok etkili bir takım oluyor.
10:34Rakiplerin on beşinci, yirminci metrede savunma çizgisini çizdiği an.
10:38Bununla ilgili Arne Slot'un şifresine ilerleyen zamanda.
10:47İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
11:20İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
11:47Teşekkürler.
12:01İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
12:03İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
12:07İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
12:08Üzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
12:09İşte, ben?
12:13Tepo spahalık, intensif,
12:19böylece bu giyznin?
12:26and there's an opponent to play against, there's a type of play, a style of play.
12:35There are so many factors that why we could bring tonight what we could bring.
12:40I think it's fair to say for me, especially for all of you,
12:44because you are following Liverpool so many times,
12:46that Anfield and the players can also rise to the occasion in a European night.
12:53I think there have been many, many, many, many moments or parts of games where we showed this,
12:59but usually we have 10 minutes where we drop down a little bit or the other team takes over,
13:06and that's 99 out of 100 times have been the moments where we conceded,
13:10because that's the first chance of them when they scored.
13:13Now today that didn't happen because we did not concede at all,
13:16and we didn't drop at all in terms of our intensity.
13:22So yeah, we would like us to perform every single time at this level.
13:27Unfortunately for the fifth, sixth time now, I think,
13:30we only get two days rest to go to Brighton, early kick-off.
13:35For me, that's not realistic.
13:41You see more and more players get injured in this period of time,
13:46because there's such a tight schedule, so we should have given a bit more rest,
13:50but that hasn't happened a lot to us this season.
13:53So Brighton is an intense team we're going to face,
13:56and we will bring the best game possible again on Saturday,
14:03but you cannot compare Brighton to Galatasaray,
14:05or you cannot compare Tottenham to Galatasaray.
14:08It's every game has its own story.
14:14But yeah, I hope this is the standard we are looking for.
14:23So yeah, let's see if we can bring that every single time from now on.
14:28You're welcome.
Comments