Jürgen, incredible performance from your team,
what was your thoughts on how the gameplan played out?
What can you say about the mentality of your players?
Good and very good!
So, I think...on a normal day you should not even try against City.
Play your normal against them and hope that you get something from it [is not enough].
You have to play to your limits, and further, and that’s what we did.
We defended in an extremely well-organised but very passionate way,
closed the right gaps, challenged in the right areas and -
because this still happens, and that’s the biggest challenge against City -
they still get through. They still get to the touchline,
they still have an incredible amount of players in the box,
and how we defended the box, and especially the six-yard box, was absolutely exceptional,
because I think we all know,
in these games you all know the City goals when they arrive there
and they have the square pass and one is waiting free in front of the goal.
We did it really well.
So it was a top performance from all the boys and that’s why we could win it.
Hi, Jürgen, are you going to have a couple of beers tonight after this massive victory?
Sorry, I am not in the mood for that.
It's all good, I made a joke after the last game
and I apologise for that, it will not happen again.
The red card, Jürgen, what happened there? The emotions of...
Yeah, it’s about emotion, of course.
So, of course, red card, my fault.
I went over the top in the moment, I don’t think I was disrespectful to anybody,
but when you look at the pictures back - I know myself for 55 years,
that the way I look in these moments is already worth a red card.
I know that, who cares what I say?
I lost it in that moment and that is not OK,
but I think a little bit as an excuse I would like to mention -
how can you not whistle that foul?
How on earth is it possible? And I wish I could get an explanation.
So, I don’t know what Pep [Guardiola] said now in here, probably not a lot,
probably very disappointed or frustrated or whatever.
But during the game we agreed completely that Anthony Taylor just let the things run.
Why would you do that? Both teams, it was not one, but I heard now
that people said it was Anfield that made the VAR decision [to disallow Foden’s goal].
With a foul on Mo, Anfield had no chance to make any impact.
It’s a foul on Fabinho [in the lead-up to Foden’s goal], I think we agree on that.
Is it not enough to pull somebody down? You're not sure about it?
Or you don't have an opinion at all?
No, I thought it was a foul.
A foul? OK.
Then Ali has the hand on the ball. So that’s a save, how I understand it…
Imagine now if it hadn’t [disallowed the goal],
now we would sit here and speak about three situations
where he should have whistled the situation.
Then you would think, "OK, that’s now really unlucky."
So there was already the first moment where Pep and I were pretty animated, both,
but actually for the same reason, to be 100 per cent honest.
For the same reason, we were not arguing with each other, not at all.
Then that situation, I just had the perfect view,
and the linesman, and you can imagine we are 1-0 up
and we have a free-kick there or a counter-attack there.
That is pretty much a 100 per cent difference, and that was when I snapped.
And again, I am not proud of that, but it happened.
Jürgen, can I ask you about Mo's performance,
how he did in that central role,
and also about Diogo's injury?
Yeah, Mo played an exceptional game. Absolutely outstanding.
Yes, obviously he was one of two strikers in the centre together with Bobby.
Great, an absolutely top performance.
The goal was world-class.
Again, a colleague of yours asked me if I think we were a bit lucky in that moment
because [Joao] Cancelo missed the ball.
I didn’t see a player missing the ball, I saw a player using his body extremely well
and being there in the one-on-one situation with the goalie.
So, a top-class goal.
The situation immediately before was really unlucky that he didn’t score there already.
Apart from that, good on the ball, a constant threat in behind,
working extremely hard - an outstanding performance, honestly.
It was really good. Diogo, I wish I wouldn’t have to talk about it.
I saw it inside on the screen, I am the first who saw it.
When I saw he goes down and there was not a lot of contact,
you can see a little bit that somebody kicks his foot
and maybe the muscle got overstretched,
96 minutes, that’s not good for the muscle.
He felt it immediately and now we have to wait to see how bad it is.
Jürgen, Salah's No. 11 went up...
I really find this question interesting.
Tell me your thoughts about that: you think we put 11 up,
so Mo has to get subbed and he comes to and tells me,
"I don’t want to leave the pitch" or whatever?
How could that happen? What is the logical explanation for that?
I'm assuming it was a mistake.
Yes [it was a mistake], the wrong number on the board - that’s exactly it.
I wanted to talk to Mo because his role changed;
Darwin came on and Mo played more of a 10 around Darwin,
and Darwin was the one for in behind more.
Obviously, Mo didn’t come in the first place
and was disappointed because he saw the number,
but I didn’t know about any kind of ‘11’ on the board.
When I saw that, we could change it - and we changed it.
Jürgen, Pep says some coins were thrown at him, do you have anything to say about that?
Horrible, I apologise for that, I had no idea.
I was obviously not on the touchline anymore, I didn't see him after the game.
Ah, yes, I did see him actually.
Yeah, that should never happen. Never, ever.
- Did you see it? - No.
Of course not.
Jürgen, just a word on Joe Gomez's performance.
It’s just great for Joey that he can show what a player he is.
Outstanding, outstanding talent,
a great player and can play different positions, obviously.
Today was sensational, a mature performance together with Virgil
and the two full-backs.
I’d like to mention - and it’s fine, Joey deserves all the praise -
but I am pretty sure before the game a lot of people thought,
"Oh, James Milner against Phil Foden.’"
The way James Milner played was absolutely unbelievable. Joey as well.
So that means the right side obviously did pretty well,
Robbo was there with a top-class game and Virgil as well.
Then in the moments when we needed Ali, he was there as well.
Our defensive line, it was for sure the best game we played this season.
It was good, the timing was nearly perfect - that’s the way we have to defend.
Now we have three days for recovery pretty much, and then we play West Ham.
Then we have to go again and they will ask for absolutely everything as well.
The next tough game is waiting.