Jurgen Klopp speaks on Liverpool’s aggregate victory over Fulham

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Liverpool gaffer Jurgen Klopp was very happy after Fulham fell behind in the Carabao Cup race. A 3-2 aggregate loss to Liverpool through a second leg 1-1 draw made sure of that.

Klopp started by agreeing he was pleased during an interview in which he spoke to liverpoolfc.com:

‘Very. Getting the draw, Fulham you just have to look at where we played first. I would think everybody would say they would prefer the second game at home, but we play our home game first and we win 2-1 and we are all long enough in the business to really know that nothing [was decided].

‘Half-time, all good. You would expect that Fulham comes here today flying out of the blocks. I liked our first 30 minutes, really a lot. We were just ready for this game, that’s the most important thing.

‘I heard Marco [Silva]’s press conference yesterday and I love it. I respect him so much, that’s why I had a look at it: when you see [he said] it is the most important game, maybe of the season, and stuff like this.

‘They want to go for the final and all these kind of things and I know what it means to them. I told the boys I know what it means to us, but we have to show it to the outside world, that we want it as much as they want it. I saw that.

‘After half an hour, we had scored one goal and I think we could have scored a second one, the game opens up slightly. We go to half-time, wanted to play more football, wanted to control the game more again.

‘Then they came out and they press for a while, but we understood the game slightly better. I liked the second half as well. We should’ve scored, there were two situations: I think the counter-attack… everything was perfect and then Lucho [Diaz] doesn’t find the right player, which was a little bit of a shame, and when Harvey [Elliott] could shoot with his slightly weaker right foot. We could’ve put the game to bed, but we didn’t.

‘Then 1-1, Harry Wilson, another Liverpool boy in a really good moment, to be honest, and then you have to bring it over the line and we did. It feels great, we are really happy.

‘The dressing room was really happy, the boys wanted it, the boys got it and now we have, I don’t know, 10 games to play until the final in four weeks or so, so a few games coming up before that, but we are looking forward to Wembley, definitely.’

Next in Liverpool’s path to the Carabao Cup trophy is Chelsea. Both teams will meet at Wembley Stadium on February 25 to decide the trophy’s home.