Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has explained why his side were 'lucky' against Manchester City despite losing 4-1 at the Etihad.
The Reds' top four hopes suffered a big blow after the big defeat to the defending champions on Saturday afternoon.
The German tactician felt that Pep Guardiola's could have won by a bigger margin on the day but admits they were lucky.Read: Haaland misses out As Man City punish Liverpool
"Everyone could see the first half was OK, not only the result," Klopp said.
"City had more possession but that always happens when we play here and we scored a wonderful goal, could have scored a second one in a really good counter-attack.
"Then, I would say this situation was rather unlucky, Kevin De Bruyne gets a touch, it rolls through Robbo's legs and then 1-1.
"You come out of half-time, a ball in midfield, not even a challenge, we are too deep. If you are too deep, too passive, they use that so that is 2-1.
"Then 3-1 super quick, after we have three or four one-on-one situations and we don't make a challenge and you saw what happened, we were not there, anyone, too passive, too open, too deep, too far away from anything.
"Four performances were okay, the two midfielders, Hendo [Jordan Henderson] and Fab [Fabinho], worked a lot, Cody [Gakpo] and Ali [Alisson] and that is very difficult.
"If you want to get something here, 14 or 15 players have to be on top of their game and that was not the case.
"We had a situation for 3-2 when Robbo broke through but apart from that City could do what they wanted because the spaces were too big so we were lucky they only scored one more."
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