'That’s something I take personally' - Jurgen Klopp wasn't happy with what Liverpool failed to do

Jurgen Klopp admits he took personally the lack of counter-pressing that almost sent Liverpool tumbling to defeat on a “strange” afternoon.

Luis Diaz's dramatic injury-time header equalised an 80th-minute opener from Tahith Chong to earn the Reds a 1-1 draw

Despite Darwin Nunez striking the crossbar and home goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski pulling off a string of saves, Liverpool were way below their best for large periods of the game.

Klopp – whose side have moved up to third – pointed the finger at a number of issues with the performance of his team.

Klopp

“It was a strange game,”

“It was a strange feeling after the game. I think we should have won, but I think the draw was the deserved result. And we could have lost. That’s how it is.

“Credit to Luton, they did really well. But even with all that they did, we created chances and didn’t finish them off with conviction, to be 100% honest.

"We were not calm enough in these moments. We should have scored more and we should have created more.

“It was all right, we created enough, we just had to put one or two to bed and win 1-0 or 2-0 then it’s absolutely fine.

"Nobody has won here with a crazy result. I knew before why but now I’ve felt it, they do it really well.

“What I didn’t like particularly was the first half we had 0.0 counter-pressing. That’s something I take personally, to be honest.

"I told the boys it’s not okay. I knew they actually wanted to do it, the question is why they didn’t do it. I have to figure that out but I will. That’s not rocket science, probably. I’ll have to watch it back.”

Klopp added:

“I told the boys at half-time ‘good, good, good here, be calm, be patient’ stuff like this, and if we would now put counter-press into that it would be helpful as we had more possession phases and longer ones and they are less organised at that moment.

“Then we’ve all seen these games before. The situation didn’t get clearer with time.

"If you score once then the gaps open up. But at 0-0 the idea of Luton is completely fine, set-pieces and counter-attacks, they stay in the game.

"You have to make sure they aren’t in the game, but they were. They scored off a counter-attack and I think everybody knows we should have won that ball, it wasn’t good enough that we lost the ball on the 18-yard line.”