Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp said after eliminating Villarreal that his rival made it “very difficult” for them to reach the Champions League final but he praised his team’s reaction after trailing 2-0 in the first half and giving it the return to the marker in the second (2-3).
“At the break I told them that they had to improve. We tried to find a situation in the match in which they did what we wanted. But Villarreal has impressed us, we haven’t found continuity. I told them that we had to move more, that they move to cause problems. We have done it,” Klopp said.
“In the first half we haven’t seen that monstrous team, but it’s Villarreal’s fault. Reacting the way we’ve reacted has been incredible. Luis Díaz has had an incredible impact but I don’t want to personalise, and it’s not Jota’s fault, it was everyone. We changed him, but it wasn’t us. In the second half we were, and that’s why we won the game”, he added.
“But this is not over, we are happy, it is difficult to reach three finals, but we will see what happens when we play them,” said Klopp, who added that seven this new final as if it were the first, because it is the best competition in the world . “This is a fantastic stadium and what they are doing here is unbelievable. It was a great game in which we were very good in the second half and I think we deserved to go through even though it was a very tough game. very strong and their people have helped them a lot,” he concluded.
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