On the importance of this game ‘in the context of the season now’ and with the Champions League coming up on Tuesday…

We always found every game we play very important and we always find every trophy we can win very important. So, last season we tried to win four and this season we tried to win four as well. But two are not possible anymore, the Premier League and the League Cup. So the other two we are in, we try to win it, as we’ve always tried at this club. And of course for us qualification for the Champions League is massive, as we all know. But that’s not on the line tomorrow. Tomorrow the FA Cup is on the line and that’s a massive game for us.

On Liverpool’s reaction after going behind at Wolves on Tuesday and ‘why you couldn’t take that approach earlier in the game’…

It’s not the perfect word to use because it’s not what I feel, but I cannot come up with another one: I’m almost annoyed if you say ‘that approach’. Because the approach is not different, the approach is we want to have the ball as much as possible, and we want to have it back as soon as possible. So, we always press high and when we have the ball we try to attack. Then, that in the final part when we have the ball in the same position it leads to chances as it didn’t happen in the first 70 or 80 minutes, that is something I see as well. But that’s not down to approach. Or maybe we don’t understand each other exactly when you mean ‘approach’.

But we don’t approach the game by saying, ‘OK, in the first 70 minutes, we don’t want to have the ball or we don’t want to attack.’ No, we do. That it doesn’t lead to anything, that we completely agree on. But that might also be due to the fact that an opponent is fitter in the start of the game than in the end. Maybe, I don’t know, that they became a bit more like, ‘Oh, we’re 1-0 up so let’s be even more defensive, let’s give them a bit of more space.’ Or there’s more urgency with us. But it’s never the approach. We always start the game in the same way and we play it in the same way.

But that there is a difference between the last 10 minutes in chance creation compared to the first 80, that’s clear. There’s no difference in the approach. If you mean that I approach it like, ‘OK, let’s stay calm and let’s wait, wait, wait.’ No, no, no. ‘Attack as much as you can.’ That’s also what you see in the game. We bring enough players forward, but that we’re not able from all the ball possession to create a lot of chances, that’s not something new to me. That has happened throughout the whole season.

On ‘options he has to change it up’ on Friday…

We have a few, but we don’t have 11, as you know. But we do have a few options. I always have options to bring in and players you can bring in, you can also let them start. So we do have a few options. But again, not for the first time this season that three days after a game we’ve again dropped points. And that is something I’ve seen us doing quite a lot this season. And now it’s again three days after the last one. So, we have to be better than we were the last time we played Wolves.