Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp expressed his pride in how his young players have stepped up in recent games as they prepare to face Nottingham Forest
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00:00 Jürgen, can you talk to us a little bit about the pride that you surely must feel as manager
00:04 in the way some of these youngsters have stepped up over the last week and a half,
00:09 especially because we often talk about it being a squad game,
00:12 but to step up in a League Cup final, in the FA Cup during midweek,
00:17 and give an account of themselves in the manner they have,
00:21 you must have enormous pride in that, don't you?
00:24 Yeah, after the game I felt that, definitely, the joy, the pride,
00:27 it's really different, it's wonderful to see how the boys deal with the situation,
00:33 because that's a full squad achievement.
00:37 It is indeed, because I think we all agree,
00:40 if you put all the young boys on the pitch together
00:41 then they are still wonderful players and have no chance.
00:44 So you need to be leaded, you need to be guided on the pitch,
00:47 you need this experience around you, and they all know that.
00:50 I congratulated the senior players after the game how they deal with the situation,
00:55 because the first half was the first half where you can get frustrated.
00:58 It's like, "OK, how can we?"
01:00 They were running through, we lost balls here and there, that all can happen,
01:03 it's completely normal in football, but it's all about your own mindset.
01:06 And nobody was in that mood at all, so they really enjoyed having them around
01:10 and knowing about the difficulties, the opportunities, the possibilities,
01:14 what they give us and all these kind of things, so that was wonderful.
01:18 But we're not here in general to think too much about these kind of things,
01:25 yesterday was a wonderful day, was it yesterday that we had the staff picture?
01:28 Yes.
01:29 So, we do that usually, if we win a trophy we do a staff picture.
01:34 I don't know why, we didn't do that in the past,
01:37 but yesterday we did it 100 per cent with the full academy staff as well,
01:41 so there was a lot of people in here and this picture was wonderful.
01:44 Because I really wanted everybody to feel it and to understand it properly,
01:50 about the role they played in that whole story, and that was really cool.
01:57 But two days later we play Nottingham Forest, so now it's tomorrow already,
02:02 so that's the one thing, it's the other thing.
02:04 We have to find solutions, and I said it's a tricky time, a challenging time,
02:08 but somehow we could keep it very positive and that's what we have to do.
02:12 But in the games are the most difficult moments, obviously,
02:16 and there we have to be ready.
02:18 Don't ask me, because you don't get an answer for that,
02:22 but if you would ask me and I wanted to answer,
02:24 "What's the definite line-up for tomorrow?"
02:27 I couldn't give you that answer now, and it's 12.30 on minus one.
02:32 Because we just have to stay flexible in these things,
02:36 and we have to trust in the process, in the things we do, and that worked out.
02:41 Not over 90 minutes, but when it didn't work out,
02:44 we had either a defensive lag somewhere for a block or a quiff,
02:48 which is a sensational save.
02:50 And that's how football is, when you are not in your best moment,
02:54 you have to keep games open until you can win them.
02:58 And these moments come up in a game if you stay clear,
03:02 but it's not always easy to keep that mindset,
03:05 and that's what the boys did, all of them,
03:07 and that's the part I'm really proud of,
03:09 but that's already passed because we have to prove that point tomorrow again.