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Liverpool boss Klopp lifts lid on halftime blast: I'm 49 and I have...

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has lifted the lid on what he told his players at halftime of their win at Swansea City.

Liverpool came from a goal down at the break to win 2-1 at the Liberty.

Klopp told liverpoolfc.com: "I said to the boys, 'I am 49 and I have lost a lot of football games and unfortunately I will lose a few more, but today makes no sense'. It's not a day where we should lose a football game because we could have done so much better in the first half and we could still do better in the second half. It's not allowed that we accept a bad day - even on a bad day you have to fight against the start, if you want.

"You have to strike back in the game and cool down because there were already small things where you could see we had already lost patience with ourselves. [We] were moaning about the decisions when the referee was absolutely right.

"You need to stop this and half-time is really good for this. We were angry at half-time, but with ourselves, nobody else. So we had to show we can do better because [up to that point] nobody could see why we were here. It looked like we were there for a football game but we were there because we want to win a football game. In the second half, there was no doubt about this anymore."

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