Klopp reacts as Liverpool beat West Ham 1-0

Jurgen Klopp, the manager of Liverpool, expressed his delight after his team’s 1-0 victory over West Ham on Wednesday.

Darwin Nunez scored the game’s only goal in the first half to give the Reds back-to-back Premier League victories.

“I am delighted,” Klopp said on BBC Match of the Day. Many of the parts were excellent. We were outstanding as long as we played football and caused West Ham a lot of problems, but the only problem was that we didn’t play this football for the entire 95 minutes and we opened it up for West Ham.

“They increased the risk by bringing on Michail Antonio and other players and they were a real threat with the long balls, all of a sudden we had to defend. We knew that, I don’t stand here thinking it should be an easy game for us, but we got the result and I think we deserved the result. In the end it wasn’t that luck has always been on our side but maybe today we had it, or Ali, however you want to look at it. It is three points more, massive.

“It was an outstanding penalty save. It was a really well-taken penalty, right in the corner, and I had no idea how Ali did that. We were a little concerned he wasn’t on the line to be honest with you, now a days you never know if you can celebrate a penalty save or not but he did that right.

“It was very important in that moment just before half time. We were really good in the first 35 minutes and played everywhere where West Ham couldn’t defend us. We scored a wonderful goal and with a bit more Darwin [Nunez] could have had a hat-trick.