Wolves 1-2 Liverpool: Jürgen Klopp's reaction

Jürgen Klopp spoke of his satisfaction after Liverpool came out on top in a 'really tough game' against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Thursday.

Roberto Firmino’s emphatic 84th-minute strike saw the Reds edge a tight contest at Molineux, after Raul Jimenez had equalised Jordan Henderson’s early opener.

Klopp’s relentless side have now won 22 of their 23 Premier League outings this season, with the unbeaten leaders’ advantage at the top restored to 16 points with a game in hand.

As well as offering a fitness update on Sadio Mane, who was forced off in the first half, Klopp discussed topics including Firmino’s ‘worldie’, Henderson’s contribution, Takumi Minamino's Premier League debut and more in his post-match press conference.

Read on for a summary…

On Liverpool’s character in grinding out the result…

We knew before, we said it before [the game] and rightly so, this would be a really, really tough game – everybody knew it, pretty much. Wolves are doing so unbelievably well, they are so different to everything else you face during the year. How Nuno sets it up is just really good. Since we played here last year, he replaced three or four players – not replaced them, but now Saiss is in, Dendoncker is in, where Bennett and Boly played. And Traore now, in the moment, I would say he is pretty much unplayable. I have said it now a couple of times and it’s the truth. He is not only a winger anymore, he now keeps the ball, holds the ball and sets up goals. That makes it difficult; the way they defend and then each ball you loose is 100 per cent a counter-attack and half a goal, but for that they had not too many chances. They scored a goal, a super goal, and had a really big one [chance] with an Ali save. I think we were four or five times in a one-on-one situation with the goalie, so there we could have scored. We scored a wonderful goal after a set-piece, but again not the second, not the third means everything is open and then it gets intense. They scored and then another five to 10 minutes, [it was] Wolves time and then we could calm the game down again and control it. Wolves felt the intensity now as well and we had again chances. Mo again, Bobby alone in front of the goalie. Then a worldie from Bobby, a super, super, super goal. That we can control a game again and that we have the set-pieces we have, we have still pressing situations, we have still counter-press situations, that gives the boys the opportunity to stay in the game because that’s what you need. It’s not only hard for us, it’s hard for the opponent as well. I think the two teams who played the most football so far played against each other, so nobody had an advantage and nobody had a disadvantage. I am really, really pleased, as you can imagine.

On the composure of his players to get the winning goal…

The boys scored one or two goals so far in their careers, but this ball can ball go wide, into the stands, and then we know the sound of that! That we have different options to score a goal gives us the opportunity to stay in the game. Each corner, if we can produce a corner it feels good for us and feels not so good for the opponent because something could really happen because we are good in that. We only had to calm the game down again – that what was needed. The goal they scored was a counter-attack; we were 1-0 up and it was a counter-attack. That makes not too much sense. We don’t go for perfection, we go for a perfect reaction if possible, that’s what we try to do, that we really fight back in difficult situations in the game. That’s what the boys did again and so, we won the game, which is really unbelievable.
Source.liverpoolfc.com