Sad Jürgen Klopp Praises Defeated Squad: ‘I saw a team who understood the importance of the game and gave absolutely everything’

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Displeased and unhappy Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp clapped for his players after an excruciating defeat to Manchester United yesterday.

The unexpected loss came during the extra time when a powerful shot from Amad Diallo sent Liverpool home from the FA Cup race.

During a post-match interview published by Liverpool FC’s official website, the manager praised his team while saying that the number of matches they played caused the underwhelming performance.

‘Yeah. The problem is we didn’t even know who to take off. For a while it was alright, in 90 minutes everything would have been fine. But then with extra-time, it was like options were now not [there].

‘We can talk now we bring the kids – we all said that all the time, you have to bring them in the right moment. They are fantastic but it was not the right moment.

‘You just saw, we could have [taken off] Macca definitely, Wataru [Endo] definitely, Darwin [Nunez] definitely, Lucho [Diaz] we did then, Joey [Gomez]. They play all the time the boys and today, this extra-time.

‘Let me say, if you lose then lose in normal time but not extra-time and then losing that late. That’s obviously close to get the penalty shootout.

‘That would have been the same intensity if we don’t concede the last two goals, but the way we conceded the last two goals you can see as well, obviously we were not on top of our game anymore, gave two balls away.

‘Absolutely no criticism about that. I saw a team who understood the importance of the game and gave absolutely everything. Today it was not enough and that’s what we have to accept now.’

This defeat will be remembered as one of the upsets of the season.