UCL: Jurgen Klopp Eyes Semifinal Ticket After Liverpool 2-0 Win Over FC Porto

UCL: Jurgen Klopp Eyes Semifinal Ticket After Liverpool 2-0 Win Over FC Porto By Admin Jürgen Klopp was left satisfied by Liverpool’s ‘deserved’ 2-0 win over FC Porto and pledged that his side will be ready to fight for their place in the Champions League semi-finals at Estadio do Dragao next week. The Reds will take a healthy lead into their last-eight second leg in Portugal thanks to goals from Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino at Anfield on Tuesday. Keita’s second strike in as many games put Klopp’s team ahead early on in the quarter-final first leg, before Firmino applied the finishing touch to an excellent team move midway through the first half. Speaking with journalists after the match, Jurgen Klopp said: "It was a good game, a good game, a controlled game in a lot of moments. We deserved the win, 100 per cent, we scored two wonderful goals and we were - in a lot of situations - really dangerous, on the right side especially with Mo, Hendo and Trent, the crosses and the passes. Overall, a really good performance. They had a bit too many set-pieces because they are really good in that and you don’t want to give them away, but that’s how it is - they go for it as well and we defended them well. "The problem was a little bit the second half, we gave one or two counter-attacks away and then we had to control it a bit more. We lost the direction in the play a bit, we didn’t play that clear anymore. We were still around in the box and all that stuff, that was good, but then for defending the counter-attacks we had to work really hard and it costs you then a little bit, you lose a bit of rhythm. That’s what happened. I would have loved it if Sadio’s goal would have counted because it was a brilliant situation, a brilliant situation. All good, 2-0, the game is still on, we have to go there, we have to fight. Porto will try everything to strike back – and that will be a really tough game again, but that’s how it should be in the quarter-finals. We will be ready." He concluded.