Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp sends a bullish message to title rivals

Liverpool dropped points for the second time in a week as Sadio Mane’s opener was cancelled out by Michail Antonio. However, boss Jurgen Klopp sent out a message to Liverpool supporters and their title rivals, declaring: “Everything is Good!” Asked if he still believes his players won’t wilt under pressure, the German replied: “Yes, I’m confident about that. “I think since five, six, seven, eight weeks we talk about a two-horse race now and Tottenham came from behind.  They had a very difficult situation and deal with it brilliantly, I have to say, all credit to Pochettino and his team how they did it, winning games late with a lot of injury problems as well. For me, they are 100 per cent in the race. “So that’s the situation. If you want to be top of the table at the end of the season then you have to deal with much tougher situations than we had today, that’s the truth.  Of course, you need players fit and available, that helps a bit. Our midfield [substitutes] tonight apart from Shaqiri would have been 18 and 18 years old [Rafael Camacho and Curtis Jones] - brilliant boys and if needed we would have played them tonight but that’s not perfect. “We have to fight. It’s not about pressure, it’s about enjoying the situation you are in. We have 62 points, lost one game in the full season so far, which is very positive.  But I see your faces already, you feel a bit sorry for us - you don’t have to, we are fine, everything is good. “Tonight was just a tough game but if you have a day like that with the things that happened yesterday and then you get a point at West Ham, for me that’s absolutely fine.   But if you want to win big things you have to be ready for these tight races, that’s how it is.”

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