Jürgen, congratulations again.
All you've experienced in football, where does that rank? Sum it all up for us.
Top three, huh?
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Yeah, it's a special night. Very special.
Winning against Barcelona is obviously
one of the most difficult things in the world of football.
Winning against Barcelona when you're 3-0 down doesn't make it easier.
We had to score four goals and it was not allowed to concede, pretty much.
That again made it more difficult, so we didn't really think about it, to be 100 per cent honest.
We tried to build on the performance in Barcelona
and all the good things we did there,
and tried to win the game step by step.
We have the ball, we attack with whatever we have.
They have the ball, we defend with whatever we have.
That made it a really special game, it was really difficult to play against us tonight,
what the boys did, this, again, mix of big heart and football skills, it's unbelievable.
But then, as we know - and we didn't learn it in the first game, we knew it already -
if we have chances, you have to score, but otherwise you get punished.
Tonight we scored in different ways, and I've said it so often now,
but the thing that really made it possible -
and I said to the boys before the game,
"I don't think it's possible, but because it's you, I think we have a chance" -
because they are really mentality giants, it's unbelievable.
After the season we played, the games we had, the injuries we have in this moment,
and if you go out there and ask who bet a penny on us,
I don't think you'd find a lot of people.
And then going out there and putting a performance like this on the pitch,
it's unbelievable, I'm really proud to be the manager of this team.
What they did tonight is so special, and I will remember it forever, 100 per cent.
Because I don't know if it happened before and I don't know if it can happen again,
I really don't know, but the boys did it and it was brilliant.
How does it feel now, Jürgen,
to know that you are two wins away from delivering one trophy, possibly two now?
Sorry, again, we don't think about it.
Of course, we're going to the final, and last year...
Last year when we were in Kiev it was not brilliant,
and actually the plan was to go to Madrid and...
..get it in there finally, and now we go there in three weeks' time,
we didn't have that long a pre-season in the summer, so I'm really looking forward to that.
Yeah, with the Premier League nothing changed really.
We knew we had to win the game against Wolves, and then we will see what happens.
Obviously tonight was really intense,
and we started without Bobby, Mo and Naby,
Ox not available but we only rested him, hopefully he's an option for the weekend.
Then Hendo got an unbelievable kick against his knee, he couldn't feel his patella,
which doesn't help in football obviously,
and Robbo got the heel of Suarez against his calf,
so you saw both limping, then Virg goes down, then Sadio goes down,
and you think, "OK, it would help if we could finish the game with 11."
We will see, we again try to collect the bones and...
go again against Wolves.
Is it Spanish?
No, I can do it in English if you want.
Do you think that Barca players have the fear of this stadium
or that they remember the defeat they had last year in Rome?
Oh, you'd have to ask Barca, but I don't know.
I thought we were really difficult to play tonight.
Really difficult, we had one or two nights like this before, and...
I can't really say a lot about Barca, to be honest.
We thought our performance was better than 3-0 at Barca,
and tonight, probably Barca's performance was better than the 4-0 here,
but it's a competition where you have to score the goals,
they didn't, we did tonight, we scored one more,
we all know that you need luck in this situation,
or a genius moment like Trent Alexander-Arnold. Wow.
I saw the ball flying in the net and had no clue who took the corner and who scored.
That was too quick for me. Now I saw it back and it's just incredibly smart.
Two players only connected, in this moment it was enough.
Oh, my God, that's... Yeah, genius.
Jürgen, do you think the result would have been the same
if you played in an empty stadium?
Eh, what?
Do you think the result would have been the same if you'd played in an empty stadium?
No chance. We know that this club is a mix of atmosphere, emotion, desire
and football quality. If you cut off one, it doesn't work - we know that.
I said it before, for me this club, if I have to describe it, it's a big heart,
and tonight it was obviously...like crazy.
What is it, when the heart is doing this?
Pounding.
Pounding like crazy.
You could hear it and probably feel it all over the world.
I’m so happy we could give the people this experience
and I’m really happy about having another chance
to get things right from our point of view.
Jürgen, we know you've had big nights before as a manager,
at Dortmund and everything, huge nights, very emotional,
is this kind of night the reason why you came to Liverpool,
because it's a club that can produce nights like this?
If I would have known exactly, yes, but I didn't know exactly.
I heard about it, but when you work for Dortmund
it's difficult to imagine there's an atmosphere like this somewhere.
I really love the Dortmund atmosphere, and Malaga was special, really special,
and the good thing is, I don't have to compare,
but if I would have known it was like this,
I would have signed a much smaller contract probably!
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Yeah, I'm really thankful, I mean it,
that I can be part of something like that,
because it's so special, it just...
It's just...
..amazing, unbelievable.
Jürgen, it'll be compared a lot to the miracle of Istanbul,
but in some ways do you feel it was less freakish
in that you knew your players were capable?
How can you be sure before a game? I'm not sure I said it here,
because I said it already in 500 interviews tonight,
but I said to the boys tonight,
I think it's impossible, but because it's you, we have a chance.
We believed in this chance, that's the only thing,
we didn't compare it with Istanbul or whatever,
we said it from the beginning, the boys, we want to create our own history,
not because we are not happy about having the history of the club,
no, because we need new chapters obviously, and the boys did it already.
That's unbelievable. And I know what people say about me and losing finals and stuff,
that's absolutely right and OK,
but it's a fourth final we are in that time, and that's already pretty special,
and last year we really felt we have to go back.
After Kiev - "We have to go back, we cannot let it stand like this",
and now we get another chance, and we will go for it of course.
But it's...
Yeah, I'm not sure if it will happen again, because it's so special.
What the boys did tonight, when I saw tears in their eyes and stuff like that,
that's football and they are professionals, this club touches you like crazy.
It's like you feel much more than others, I don't know, in these moments,
so that's really great, I love that.
Go on, Raph.
Did last night's game have any impact on the psychology of the team?
Because the fans were a little bit disappointed last night, but the team...
Oh, I can imagine, but no. We had a meeting this morning, a set-piece meeting,
and asked before we start, "Anybody want to talk about last night?"
"No." Then we don't talk about it, so let's go.
For us it was always really clear that we have to play the last matchday
and that's what we have to try now, with all...
We will see how big the problems are that we have,
but we will fight again and I knew it before, but now especially,
the atmosphere will be brilliant,
and they have to push us again because it's a difficult game on Sunday.
We have to win that, which is already difficult enough, that didn't change.
And then we will see what happened in the other stadium,
but, yeah, when Kompany shoots from pretty much 30 yards and scores like this...
Yeah, what can you say?