On whether ‘sloppiness crept in’ to Liverpool’s performance before Burnley’s equaliser…
I think there was one big warning sign when we almost scored an own goal and that chance, and the goal we conceded, came from similar situations where we wanted to try to bring the ball out from the back and we were caught in possession. Twice that led to a dangerous situation and I think those were the only moments where we struggled, but that was inside five minutes so it felt like, ‘We are having a more difficult spell in the game.’ So, in a similar way we have conceded those two chances but during the whole game I think we did really well in a combination of bringing the ball out from the back [and] playing a bit more direct. But yeah, a great finish from a position which, I think, we had many better positions to score from, but that’s football and we have to accept that.
On another positive performance by Milos Kerkez…
We just spoke about frustration. I think we all have a lot of frustration about the result, sometimes it’s also a bit of a frustration for me that all the development some players are going through is not being seen because the results don’t show how the development of the team and individual players is. You are talking about Milos and I completely agree – he had another good game. I saw Florian scoring another great goal and he was involved in a lot of other moments as well. Jeremie Frimpong, another good game of him – a big, big, big threat on that right side.
But results don’t always reflect development and that’s, I would almost say, another frustration because it is also hard for the players to feel that we are improving, to feel that they are improving, if results are not as we want them to be. Of course, we can talk now about 12 [games] in a row without a loss but our standards are higher than not losing. Our standards are winning every game.