Life for a team can get difficult without Virgil Van Dijk.

Specially for Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp who relied heavily on the Dutch international. With VVD out injured, Klopp had to reshuffle his defence and is now a happy man to have come through it unbeaten.

“Look, in the Premier League all opponents are tricky to play, unbelievable, so I don’t make really these kind of assumptions or think, ‘OK, we played them already and we played them already’. “We have to play them again and wherever it is it will be difficult. It’s a tough period and for the boys, it just goes on. They go now and play two, some of them three, games for their national teams and yeah, it’s a tough time. “That’s why we have to make sure with the boys [that] we give them time, at least a few days when we can do it, to recover. Apart from that, the boys were ready to go again [against City] and I couldn’t be more happy about that.”

Klopp has been most impressed with his young center backs stepping up to the plate:

“Top game. Top, top level [from] both teams. Energy level outstanding from both teams, two really good football-playing sides battle against each other. It was outstandingly interesting to watch. “I loved our start, obviously we played a different system and you saw that in the game – in moments we had still to adapt to it. We had two days’ time to work on it, we did that but in the end, under pressure from a proper opponent, it’s slightly different. But the boys did incredibly well, I liked really a lot of situations, a lot of football parts, how we defended City was really good. “They had their 10 minutes when we weren’t as compact as necessary after the quick start. That’s where they came back, that’s the quality of City, but then it was again equal or level or whatever you want. So, I’m really fine with a point.”

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