Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was delighted with the "character" shown for their 4-3 win over Crystal Palace.

Palace went into the break 1-0 ahead.

Klopp said, "Nobody should be surprised about the character of the boys. If something was really here before I came in it was character. I have known the boys since October 2015, all the boys that were here, and they have outstanding character. The work-rate was always unbelievable and all that stuff, so you have to mix it up with a few other attributes. Confidence is important, self-belief and all that stuff.

"The boys are ready to fight for all, that's clear. It's not the first moment in the season where we had to do it, but today it was pretty special and I really liked it. I think it was not too easy for the crowd to get the first half – so what do you do with that?

"It's all OK on one-hand side, but on the other you are 1-0 down. I am pretty sure a lot of people though that it's not only difficult today, but probably the day where we lose it. We were not like this. I told the boys, most importantly we have to stay positive and it's now allowed to lose the nerves – there was no reason for it, nothing happened and we had to improve a few things and do a few things again and again.

"The boys did it, you always need a bit of luck in football but it was not too much necessary. The boys deserve these three points in a very difficult game."