Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool coach, praised his team’s game this Wednesday against Villarreal in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals, put a point of sanity despite the result and said that only half of the work is done.
“You had to play the second half like the first half, without losing concentration, with intensity. With the effort to lose a ball and recover it immediately and we did it. We have played a really good game”, explained the German coach at a press conference.
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“It’s 2-0 and half the work is done. The environment that they are going to propose there is going to be very complicated. They will fight with everything they have. I can’t respect you more. The way they have approached the game today has been very good. We have been taught a lesson,” he added.
The German coach was reminded of the 2018 semi-finals, when they comfortably beat Roma, but denied that they could be trusted.
“We did not go to Rome thinking that we had already done it and that we had passed. That team had just eliminated Barcelona. We haven’t thought for a second about that game,” Klopp said.
On the key to the match against Villarreal, Klopp pointed out that they needed to score goals, because against teams under such pressure, “If they get out they can be a real threat.” “Almost all the time we defended very well,” he added.
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