Jürgen Klopp: If you don’t protect Mkhitaryan, he runs from here back to Manchester with the ball

Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp Jürgen Klopp spoke about the Armenian national team captain Henrikh Mkhitaryan, while commenting on the goal of Manchester United in the 8th round of the Premier League. 

"It looked to me like Manchester United wanted a point; if they could get three, they would take it of course, but we wanted three. So they are happy and we are not happy. I saw them run a lot actually, only that we were dominant. But it’s a home game so we should be dominant. I’m OK with the performance. It’s not my job to judge the Manchester United performance.

The boys performed again and learned a lot from the last game, protected our offensive situation perfectly against one of the best counter-attacking teams in the world. If you don’t protect Mkhitaryan, he runs from here back to Manchester with the ball. And Lukaku is usually not to defend – we defended him well.Martial, Rashford, Young, whoever was on, we really did well. That was all good. Was it perfect? Probably not otherwise we would have won. But we had the big chance plus a penalty [claim]… it’s 2-0. 

My job is to ask for what I can get and not to ask to play like Barcelona after three 6-0 wins in the last three games.

If you watch the game and you have an idea of football, you cannot expect that we create 20 chances against Manchester United – it’s just simply not possible. Barcelona on the best day would not do it," Liverpool press service reported quoting Jürgen Klopp .

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