“But obviously we are still looking for improvement and we are not perfect. We are human beings and we want to do our best for the club. <\/p>\n
“We want to be performing on the absolute highest level, and we need each other at their best and it’s a process, but we keep going and focus on the next one. It will be another difficult one at the weekend again [versus West Ham United], so onto the next.”<\/p>\n
Read the rest of the post-match interview with the captain below\u2026<\/p>\n
On whether it felt like the ‘biggest win’ of the season…<\/p>\n
It feels definitely nice to win here. It’s a very difficult ground, in my opinion, to come. A very poor first half from all of us with and without the ball. I think you saw the desire to not concede, that was obviously maybe the only positive thing. I think in the second half we turned it around and we were much more comfortable on the ball and without the ball as well. <\/p>\n
We know Forest can be dangerous from set-pieces and the quality they have with the confidence they had from their midweek win. I think we did well, especially in the second half. At the end it’s just a great feeling to win and be on the good side of a late winner for once in a long time.<\/p>\n
On whether being ‘braver’ on the ball made the difference in the second half\u2026<\/p>\n
It’s a combination of that, I think. Obviously, it all starts with winning your battles, winning the challenges and when you have the ball make the right decisions. It’s not always easy to do that, especially in a first half where a lot of players are still fresh and they run and they press and go one-v-one and if you are late in challenges or in possession or lose the ball too easily then they create momentum. <\/p>\n
We did that much better in the second half and we found our triangles; we rotated well in the middle and had our wingers a lot of times in the one-v-ones. I don’t think we created real clear-cut chances, but obviously Hugo [Ekitike]’s was massive and he should have scored. In the end we got the winner and that’s the most important thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“But obviously we are still looking for improvement and we are not perfect. We are human beings and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,608,59,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-441144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-gb","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}