Jürgen Klopp acknowledged that Liverpool’s performance was ‘not good enough to get a better result’ after Real Madrid won Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg 3-1 at Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano.


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First-half strikes from Vinicius Junior and Marco Asensio put Real ahead at the break, before Mohamed Salah grabbed an away goal for the Reds in the early stages of the second period.

But Vinicius restored the hosts’ two-goal cushion with 65 minutes on the clock, and Zinedine Zidane’s side hold the upper hand heading into next Wednesday’s second leg at Anfield.