Liverpool, Oct 16 (AFP\/APP):Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool “showed up today” after his side beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 in a thrilling contest at Anfield on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Salah’s 76th-minute strike gave Klopp’s team just their third win of the Premier League season and slowed City’s title charge.<\/p>\n
“Result, perfect,” said Klopp, who was shown a red card late in the game. “Performance, really, really good, in an incredibly intense game.<\/p>\n
“We defended at an incredibly high level for 99 minutes almost. They had their moments but especially in the box we did extremely well.<\/p>\n
“This was for us obviously big today. We showed up today and that is all we wanted to do.”<\/p>\n
Klopp praised “sensational” awareness from goalkeeper Alisson Becker to free Salah for the goal.<\/p>\n
“Outstanding from Mo,” he said. “He might miss one but he will not miss two in a similar situation.<\/p>\n
“Goals decide the game but there were so many good football moments against what I would say is the best football team in the world.”<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola said his City team were punished for making a mistake in a game of “fine margins”.<\/p>\n
“This is Anfield — every time you come here lately unfortunately this is Anfield,” he added.<\/p>\n
“We played a really good game but this is a game where there are really fine margins and the mistakes are punished. We made a mistake and we cannot concede and that’s why we lost the game.<\/p>\n
“We played to beat Liverpool today, definitely we played for that. After 1-0 the crowd shouted but we shouted more on the pitch.”<\/p>\n
City thought they had snatched the lead early in the second half through Phil Foden but VAR spotted a foul by Erling Haaland on Fabinho in the build-up and the goal was disallowed.<\/p>\n
“The referee said played on, played on, played on, there were a thousand million fouls like this and this one is because we scored a goal,” said Guardiola.<\/p>\n
“So they disallowed because we scored a goal, otherwise it would not have been disallowed. We lost because we make a mistake but this is Anfield.
\n“The crowd tried (to throw coins and objects) but they didn’t touch me. Maybe next time they will be better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liverpool, Oct 16 (AFP\/APP):Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool “showed up today” after his side beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 in a thrilling contest at Anfield on Sunday. Mohamed Salah’s 76th-minute strike gave Klopp’s team just their third win of the Premier League season and […]<\/p>\n
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