Jürgen Klopp's assessment of Liverpool's draw with Leeds United

The Reds led Monday’s contest at Elland Road through Sadio Mane’s first-half goal, but were pegged back by a late Diego Llorente equaliser.

Post-match, Klopp offered his assessment of the game to Liverpoolfc.com. Watch the boss’ interview below, or read on for a transcript…

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On whether a draw was a fair reflection of the game…

Yeah, probably in the end. We played a really good game in the first half, a really good game. If you saw Leeds more often maybe then you know how tricky it is to play against them. We did really well. They make the pitch big, they want to play in different areas, are pretty direct, running in behind, all these kind of things. We controlled that quite well, caused them a lot of problems, scored a wonderful goal [and] could have scored others, should have scored in the second half with the counter-attacks – didn’t do that and then you keep the game open. Then we got step by step a bit deeper, defended deeper, and that makes no sense. That doesn’t help. But it’s an intense game to play against them so we dropped deeper, it was not right but it happened, so they created, especially with set-pieces, big chances. Ali made two, at least, really good saves. But, with the number of set-pieces and the size we had tonight – we obviously didn’t have the tallest team – we were in danger there so they scored the goal. Yes, when you are that long 1-0 up, it’s quite frustrating when you don’t get it over the line.

On whether Liverpool had the feeling pre-match that they may need to score more than one goal to win…

To be honest, it was a hard fight. No problem. I would have taken the 1-0 easily but how always, you need to be then a little bit lucky. We lost games where we were better and we won games where we were worse, that’s how life is. It was a tough day and now it’s over.

On going again versus Newcastle United at Anfield on Saturday…

Definitely, definitely. You can see the intensity the boys put in, it’s really there. We played a lot of good stuff, we could have played even better tonight in moments, I know that – get a bit more clinical and then we will score goals. Newcastle [is] a different challenge but we will face it.