…TOTTENHAM

It's always a challenge against Spurs. I don't want to make it the biggest subject, but I can't forget the Tottenham game as well, it's just so strange. Only the other night for the first time since Tottenham, Simon Hooper was standing next to me for 90 minutes in a game I didn't enjoy in the first place against Everton. He was there and he was the ref that night [at Tottenham]. I tried to get it out of my head, but I couldn't. So, now we play Tottenham and that was obviously not their fault that night, they just played the game, but I would like to win that game for 500 reasons, that we lost there and the way we lost is one of them.

…PREPARATION

The only difference with footballers is they constantly have a camera in their face while they are going through difficult spells. We will give it a try, to try again. It's tricky but you don't do it by putting your finger into it all the time and saying, 'That's not good enough... that's not good enough.' You just try to offer things where things can develop naturally again. That's what we tried this week so far and will do until the end, giving the boys the necessary information as well. In the end you only can enjoy football when you win and that means you have to make sure that we defend [against] them properly and then for the rest we have to build on that.

…CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The pressure is off now. That's done. That would be really cool if we could play really, really good football again. That would be absolutely nice because obviously we were very tense in the last few weeks. We had a super-intensive period as well, Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday - [it] didn't work out for us now too well after a long, long season. But, how I said, going back to the start of the season nobody knew and everybody knew how important it would be to qualify for the Champions League again. It's what we did and it's super-important for the future of the club and I'm really happy about that.

…INJURY REPORT

There are no significant injury issues after defeat at Chelsea but it is hard to say given the quick turnaround and we will have a better idea this afternoon.

…LAST DEFEAT

Our pressing has generally been pretty consistent all year but our football has fluctuated. Especially in the first half we didn't show the same energy and intent in our defensive work. But, as I said after the game, that's my responsibility. I've got to look at how I'm looking at preparing a team and the team we're putting out there.

…DEVELOPMENT

Every job I've taken has had tough bits, sometimes in the middle, sometimes at the start and the end. Nothing surprises me. It's how you grow. You don't grow from just thinking everything is going to go smoothly. You need to go through these times. There's a number of reasons and they all may be individual, so it's not a blanket. It's not surprising either because it's part of the nature of change. Change is difficult, it's relentless, it's uncompromising, it's challenging, it doesn't leave you a lot of leeway to feel comfortable. It's part of that process and my job is to navigate through that.

…FUTURE TITLE RACE

We're a long way off but it doesn't mean we can't challenge ourselves next year. I think in terms of the team I want us to be, we're a fair way off, but I am not dismissing the fact that we have to be competitive and challenge for success every year I am here. I am not going to dismiss any year as just a building year.

…JURGEN KLOPP

I am sure we will see him back and managing at the top level again. Credit to him that at such a big club he was able to imprint his own style, his own vision and bring success.