Jürgen, many congratulations. You're off to Wembley.
Thank you. Yeah, that's great.
It's a while ago [since we were there],
so it was time pretty much and we are really happy about it.
And the mood in the dressing room at the moment is, um, yeah,
over the moon, obviously, because it was a difficult game for us.
It's a difficult time generally, that we just have to get through this,
and we try everything we can to do that.
What the boys made tonight against this really strong Arsenal side
was absolutely exceptional.
The start, I think...
So, like, first half, Arsenal was really pretty lively.
The crowd was there, stuff like this, and we calmed down, played good football.
could really play in and around their formation,
created...not plenty, with the quality they have it's not so easy.
Second half was pretty similar, and again we scored two wonderful goals, I have to say.
Wow, Diogo Jota on fire.
But the passes were....
The first goal was super play, and the second one,
I don't think a lot of people in the stadium saw Diogo in that position,
but Trent saw it! Which was helpful.
And then he finished it off.
Absolutely outstanding.
Obviously no Mane or Salah.
Or Naby Keita.
And Keita, but in terms of your front three, he's really stepped up, hasn't he?
How much has he [Jota] progressed since he arrived at Anfield?
We were completely convinced when he arrived that he will help us massively.
So many things.
You know, when you move and you watch a player before you sign him,
nowadays you have the opportunity to watch 100 games if you want,
and we were really comfortable.
Of course, since he's here, again he made another step and it's absolutely helpful.
He's just really turned into a world-class striker, meanwhile,
and that's, how I said, for us pretty helpful.
You enjoyed that VAR decision, didn't you? You celebrated wildly.
Yeah, after, but it was like... So it was really close, obviously.
For me it was not offside,
but when it's whistled then its whistled and you know an armpit is enough.
Diogo was very convinced that it's not offside, and he might know it the best.
So in the end, I couldn't see it back yet, but it was not offside
and the whole bench told me already before -
"No, no, onside, onside!"
So, of course, important goal in a good moment.
After the first leg, do you feel you had a little bit to prove?
You knew there was an improvement here tonight.
We had nothing to prove. You have these two games
and you have to take the result from the first game.
If you lose at home 1-0, does that mean we shall not arrive at Arsenal to try it?
No, of course not.
So we drew at home and for us, a difficult game,
I said at that time, we didn't play 20 times together that formation.
So we had to play against 10 men,
breaking a low block down is the most difficult thing in football.
Today we did much better, but it's just, it was 11-11,
Arsenal had their own ideas and so they were not here just to defend.
I think it's not possible in your own stadium,
so it's clear it will be a game, will open up slightly.
But we still have to score, and that's what we did.
I appreciate it's quite a few weeks away,
but it will be a first ever final domestic final in England
with two German managers going head to head.
Sorry!
Yeah, but when is it?
End of February.
So we have a little bit of time, plenty of games to play until then.
I'm pretty sure the game will not be about the two German managers,
but about two really good football teams.
We wanted desperately to go to that final, now it's Chelsea -
fine, let's give it a try.
And we spoke to Trent as well.
Your last trophy you won in the the depths of Covid, no supporters,
It wasn't probably as you wanted it.
Now you go to Wembley,
and hopefully from your point of view will lift silverware in front of your supporters.
Yeah, but I don't think about celebrations or whatever,
when we then start preparing the game,
we think about how do we have to approach the game against Chelsea?
So, that's it.
And I'm really happy for our supporters
that they have the chance to go to Wembley
and hopefully celebrate something,
but between now and then there's a lot of time to go.
I enjoyed our trophies without supporters a lot, to be honest,
because it was just so special,
but, yes, we all know with them it's really special.
There's a game to play before we think about celebrating.