Jürgen Klopp took ‘great’ satisfaction in watching his Liverpool side secure another piece of silverware by beating Chelsea on penalties to win the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday night.
Adrian saved decisively from Tammy Abraham after the Reds had successfully converted all five of their spot-kicks following a 2-2 draw after 120 minutes.
Sadio Mane scored twice for Klopp’s team, the forward first equalising Olivier Giroud’s first-half opener in the early stages of the second period before then firing his side into the lead in extra-time.
Jorginho’s 100th-minute penalty levelled it up again, meaning spot-kicks were needed to separate last season’s Champions League and Europa League winners.
Read on for a summary of Klopp’s post-match press conference from Besiktas Park…
On his players being able to touch the ‘This is Anfield’ sign after winning two European trophies…
Actually we don’t have time for that! We play on Saturday again, we have to find a way to be ready for that game. After 90 minutes, I think, when it was close to the final whistle, Frank Lampard asked me: ‘Where do you play and when do you play [at the weekend]?’ And I said ‘Southampton on Saturday – congratulations!’ Nobody wanted extra-time tonight, they play Leicester at home on Sunday but they played last Sunday so there was no advantage tonight but for the next game for both it will be pretty tough. But we have to be ready again and that’s my present to the players to help them recover so that they are ready for the game. It was a big fight tonight and I didn’t know before the game how good it would be when you win it, but it’s brilliant, it’s really big. The atmosphere in the stadium was outstanding, it showed us again how big this club is: wherever we go, our supporters are already there. I don’t know exactly how many fans were from Istanbul but I can only say ‘thank you’ because it was just a brilliant atmosphere. We would have loved to bring our weather to Turkey for one day at least because it was really intense, but now it’s done, we came through and we won it. The boys feel really good, I feel really good, so everything is OK.
