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An ultimately meaningless game.
Liverpool played out a 1-1 draw away at Midtjylland in the
Champions League full of controversy and VAR
nonsense. But it didn’t matter. The Reds had won the group
anyway.
Jürgen Klopp, truthfully, seemed pretty happy to just move onto
the next game.
“Honestly, it’s absolutely not the mood to think about
[qualification]”, the Liverpool Echo report the manager as
saying. “Now, already, Fulham is in my mind. I cannot think about
what happened so far.
“We feel we could have had more points [in PL]. City point was
OK but Brighton & Everton
should have won. Could have more.
“Now it is Fulham and they get our full focus.
“You can make changes but you need a few key positions. Fabinho
in the last line played 45 mins. In midfield would have been Naby,
just needs to get mins.
“How the game developed…Mo looked fine. Others it’s really
difficult after a long time without 90 mins.
“Different halves. I liked the football first half, how they
adapted. Taki played 2nd time that position.
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“Looked much better. Had big chances which we could have used
better. Wanted to build but it didn’t work out. Midtjylland were
physical, direct. Didn’t defend throws.”
On youngsters Billy Koumetio and Leighton Clarkson making their
debuts, Klopp felt they will [learn]. We let them have the
experience. A wonderful thing to have 1st CL game but a career is
about how many.
“Really skilled boys and a lot to learn. They helped us a lot. A
big night for both. Thankful they are as good as they are.”
That’s really all anyone can take from this game. It was a nice
opportunity for some young players to get minutes, and a
frustrating use of some experienced players. You’ll forget this
game happened by January. Onwards and upwards.