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Liverpool boss Klopp: Our best ever performance at Fulham

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was pleased with their 3-1 win against Fulham.

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Diogo Jota and Ryan Gravenberch struck the goals for Liverpool.

Klopp said: "I liked big parts of the first half already but you are right, the second half was a complete performance, if you want. The start in the game was good. For us, you cannot really explain that, but for us Fulham is a tough place to go. I can't even remember if we won here before, to be honest, we always struggle here a little bit. If we won, I'm pretty sure it was rather lucky than convincing, maybe I see that wrong. From my point of view, that was the best performance we had so far against Fulham away.

"We won the last game already. Nobody felt that really but we won against Atalanta. It didn't help but it was still a win. And I thought there's a good chance we'd make the next step today and we tried that and the boys did that, and it was really good. We just played a really good football game, created much more chances than we used – that's normal, by the way – but could have scored more often.

"We had one or two tricky situations to sort I think, self-created pretty much when we lost the ball in an unnecessary moment. I'm really happy with the performance and hopefully nobody got hurt, not that I heard anything, but that would be great. Then we'll see. We have to recover because then we play on Wednesday again."

On bouncing back from a difficult fortnight, he continued: "Look, I don't question these kind of things. We were that before. Obviously we didn't gain an awful lot of points in that period but I think it was still one or two. OK, we should have won games, we didn't. That's not great. But created a lot and we are in the situation we are because of the character of these boys. Nobody expected us to be here and here we are. That's because of the boys.

"It's the run-in, obvious, there's no interruption anymore. There's no [European] football anymore, at least not for us. Actually for no English team besides Aston Villa. So we all can concentrate on that and that's what we probably will all do. I'm really happy with today.

"We made these changes because we were 100 per cent convinced we had to. It was not a gamble or whatever. We play on Wednesday and then we play on Saturday, already in London again, which is crazy enough but that's how it is. So we need to make these changes before the players give me the obvious sign, 'Sorry, I'm done.' Really happy with that."

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