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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: Our mentality just brilliant

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp hailed their "mentality" for victory at Southampton.

The Reds came from behind to win 3-1.

And Klopp said: "Yes – mentality, eh? It's brilliant. We come here and we know Southampton are a really different side since Ralph was in. Everybody expects, and we need, three points. We knew how difficult that is. The set-up was 5-4-1, that means you play against nine. Our problem was we didn't push up high enough in the last line; so we let Fabinho [be] around Long or Redmond instead of the two centre-halves.

"We could bring on two very motivated and lively boys [Henderson and James Milner], I would say, and it helped a lot.

"They pushed the whole team, they do it in the dressing room and do it on the pitch. It was really good to see the influence of the two. And then we scored these two world-class goals. We won the ball and a counter-attack; you see 1-1 against Southampton and you score both goals from counter-attacks."

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