Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp hailed matchwinner Mohamed Salah after victory over Brentford.

The Bees lost 1-0 to an early Salah goal on Saturday night.

Klopp said: "Six wins is very special. This game today was very special. It was the best defensive set piece session I ever saw because there were so many. First half, we created a lot of good chances and played really well. I don't think [Brentford] had a lot of chances to be honest.

"They are the best set piece team in European football. Against Nottingham Forest, every set piece led to chaos in our box. Today it was a massive improvement. We needed it. 1-0 is a great result, a clean sheet and three points, everything is good.

"Brentford had a week to train. We had only three days to recover. We all know how good they are. They break the play up with their set pieces - it is all legal but you have to adapt to it. I loved the focus and concentration; the game was open, we could have controlled it more by scoring more but against the best set piece team I have ever played against, it was outstanding.

"If everybody needs proof that Mohamed Salah is special, I don't know. That is not the case for anybody at Liverpool. He is one of the all time greats. Now he is just a world class player with a desire to score goals. He works hard to close players down. We all know that some world class players don't have to do that or don't do it, but he has to and he is. I'm really proud of him."