Klopp’s side dominated the first half but only had one goal to show for it. Klopp, who is aiming to win the league in his final season as Liverpool manager, still considered it a point gained rather than two lost.

However, he recognised his side should have opened up a bigger advantage before United rallied in the second half. “So that’s now the situation.

It’s an away game at Manchester United – I think for us, the away games at United are more special [than] for other teams, for us they put an extra shift in, that’s how it is. We’ll face that again…”

“We should have won the game, so that’s clear, but we caused a few problems ourselves,” the Liverpool boss reflected.

“[We] controlled the game, scored the first one, wonderful, should have had other goals in the first half already. They had no shots on target, no shots at all in the first half, so 1-0 is the lowest of all possible results [then], but that’s how it is.

We make a mistake and [Fernandes’ goal is] well-executed in the end, really well from Bruno, and then the stadium’s coming and we needed a few minutes to settle again and in that time they score another screamer, a wonderful goal. “But then we found a way back into the game.

Before they scored we had big chances, and after they scored we had big chances, and we only used two.”