Klopp admits Liverpool ‘lucky’ to come away with win at Palace

Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp admitted his facet have been “lucky” to depart Selhurst Park with three factors as his facet earned a dramatic 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace within the Premier League on Saturday.

Liverpool have been second-best for a lot of the sport and located themselves behind from a Jean-Phillipe Mateta penalty within the 57th minute. However, Palace ahead Jordan Ayew was proven a second yellow card on 75 minutes and it sparked Liverpool into life, with Mohamed Salah scoring a minute later and substitute Harvey Elliott putting an outstanding winner in stoppage-time.

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“I am a very happy manager in this moment, and I know we were lucky as well. If you only win when you’re really good then you have no chance of being really successful, that’s just how it is,” Klopp mentioned in his post-match information convention.

“Today was not a really good game from us. For 76 minutes, we put in a bad performance… Then they got a red card and we scored right after that — that’s all helpful. That is why I said we were lucky as well, definitely. But what we did from 76 [minutes] to 106 [minutes] was really good because as you know against 10 men you can have more problems than today. We really turned the game around; the subs were super influential.

“That’s truly the story to date of this season, the subs being impactful off the bench. If Harvey [Elliott] miss hits that ball it is a draw, if Mo [Salah] shouldn’t be there and the ball does not get deflected then we lose the sport. The final 15-20 minutes we deserved it, earlier than that we deserved nothing.”

Salah’s goal on 76 minutes was his 200th for Liverpool and 150th in the Premier League, and Klopp said he awarded the forward a shirt in the dressing room after the game to commemorate the landmark.

“It’s actually spectacular,” Klopp added. “We carried that shirt for 2 weeks with us, now lastly we might give it to him. That was most likely the perfect second to rating it to be 100% sincere.

“It is an incredible number for a super special player, and I don’t know how often he has saved us for a goal he has scored at the right moment. It was a pretty loud reception in the dressing room when I gave him the shirt with the ‘200’ on the back.”

Liverpool, who’ve now earned 37 factors from 16 Premier League video games this season, will spherical off their Europa League group stage marketing campaign in opposition to Union St.Gilloise on Thursday earlier than internet hosting rivals Manchester United at Anfield subsequent Sunday