Jurgen Klopp said he had never experienced anything like Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Newcastle United at St James’ Park thanks to a late brace from Darwin Nunez and despite Virgil van Dijk being sent off in the first half.
Nunez buried an unstoppable equalizer shortly after coming on late on and then showed ice-cold composure to strike again in the third minute as the Reds, whose captain was dropped following his 28th-minute turnover, came from behind. win very dramatically.
Anthony Gordon gave Newcastle the lead midway through the first period when Van Dijk was shown a straight red card moments later for a foul on Alexander Isak.
However, Klopp’s side showed impressive determination and quality to respond and grab all three points in unforgettable
Today absolutely everything. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game like that in my 1,000 games as a coach or manager, that’s the truth. Not that we’ve never turned games around, but to go 10 men in that atmosphere against that kind of opposition – it’s not that I don’t remember, I’m pretty sure it never happened because those moments are rare and super special. But I thought the lads deserved
it today because with 10 men we played better and gave Newcastle a real game. It was a bit wild before that with Newcastle having a 1-0 advantage of course.
We didn’t play calmly enough, we felt the pressure when we shouldn’t have.
During half time we showed the guys one situation, it was an attacking situation where Trent passed the ball from behind the line to Cody Gakpo, where he comes from the left side to the right, where we can just go into their box and finish. possibilities Two things were clear at half-time, or three things had to happen: Trent can’t get another yellow card, we can’t let another one in, and if that happens, we’ll have a chance.
And the boys, they wanted to work really hard and… I think we had chances even before Darwin scored. I remember now when Diogo went past Mo, who was unfortunately [blocked], but we had moments and that’s important, that’s important. I think a year ago [at St James’ Park last season] we were in a similar situation, we were 2-0 up, then a red card, then we didn’t play football anymore. So it’s obviously difficult, it’s not that easy and I can imagine how Eddie [Howe] and Newcastle feel now, these things happen but usually you win anyway. That didn’t happen today because my boys kept believing and I’m very happy about that.
The year is in full swing please
What I said to Darwin certainly did not affect his presentation. Pep Lijnders can talk to him and he did. I hug him and encourage him to fight for the team.
That’s all. Darwin, we’ve had this before, he’s not happy he didn’t go, right, but nobody can start this early in the season. We can’t have 11 players and play them all the time, so we have to find stability in the conversation…
I don’t know if the public is discussing it, but of course the players are not happy [if so. . does not start]. 57 minutes ago
Darwin Nunez: I am very happy and want to congratulate my teammates
But after the international break we play every three days and nobody can play all the games, so we have to make sure we have different options. And we have to create a new way of playing football and of course Darwin can be a great part of that. His main strengths are certainly exceptional, but we also need to find stability. So he’ll be fine, but maybe it was intentional – if he hadn’t been so angry and started the game today, he wouldn’t have scored two goals in the last six minutes or whatever, so let’s say that. road Like that.
the second goal went…
No, these days I don’t celebrate those goals too much because I wasn’t sure if it was offside or whatever.
I was pretty sure it wasn’t offside, but anyway a minute later, when I think the VAR review was over, the boys heard it in the back line, they really celebrated and then I felt a huge sense of relief. Like I said, at half-time… the way we played after the red card made us feel like we could do something here.
We don’t give in, we are calm, we defend passionately, we play with ideas and we have a chance to
As an observation, not a sending off… there’s a foul on Trent Alexander-Arnold, which is not given clear in front of the fourth official [and he] says to me, ‘Yes, it’s a foul’.
The ref doesn’t give it and then Trent kicks the ball away – his fault. Done. Yellow. Next situation is the thing, if you want a second yellow, if he gives it, he gives it, but I didn’t think it is.
You need to have this little space to keep a game going. Take him off, there’s an arm over… then what’s your curiosity of a football game? I am not sure that’s how it should be.
On Van Dijk’s red card…
I don’t think it is a red card. It’s pretty much no contact, very little, and it’s on the way to the ball, but what can I say?
The decision is like this, I cannot change it and I don’t want it. It’s just, would I give this in a training game? Definitely not. There are reasons why I am not a ref and they are.
No, no. The big man looked a bit tired, let me say it like this. It is long ago the boys now played a full 90 minutes, these kind of things. Joey played obviously 70 and we have Quansah.
It’s great. He’s a real talent. He played two really good passes, super-important passes, I would say. Defensively we needed luck a little bit, we were a bit too deep, a bit too passive, they could shoot but we have Ali. There were, obviously, besides the result a few nice stories and bringing Quansah on is one of them.
 get a point here. I of course have a point and finally more about what the guys did.
Can he describe the spirit of his team…
No, I don’t know. We have to create a spirit. That is correct. We are early, the season is at the beginning, the atmosphere and the understanding of the boys is great, we have had top camps; everything is great. But spirit is something else, so it is what you make of it.
Of course I like that we have two games with 10 men? No. Obviously Ibou Konate’s injury is why we had 10 men against Bournemouth.
This is the truth. It was intense, it’s not a big injury, but it’s a little bit and I look at what we had today. So 70 minutes in the Premier League, have you heard a lot about it leading up to a turning point in the game? I don’t remember, but big stories need key moments and we’ll see. Let’s see what it is. I can’t sit here and say,
“Okay, where we are now, we know how it’s going to go.” No. We are fresh, we have new key players in the team and we have to create key moments and today
