On the decision to allow Forest’s first goal to stand…
During the game, people told me he was in an onside position, so that’s why I wasn’t worried at all. Was he in an offside position, is that 100 per cent sure? Then I have to see it back. Because I heard immediately that he was onside, I didn’t check what the line of vision was. Now, I haven’t had time to see it back, if he was in the line of vision. I’ve seen us conceding three goals this season, against Atletico [Madrid] two and against [Eintracht] Frankfurt one, that were more in the line of vision of the goalkeeper than the one we scored at [Manchester] City, but I think no-one wants to hear from me now talking about refereeing decisions.
If you lose 3-0 against Forest then I should first of all look at myself and my team instead of that. It does show you how a set-piece or how a goal can change momentum and can change the game because before we conceded the 1-0, I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Afterwards, we hardly created any chances anymore.
On whether he is convinced Liverpool’s form will turn…
It is my responsibility. If we win or lose, it is my responsibility. But what I also see is the team and, by the way, our fans as well stay until the end, support the team until the end and the players keep on trying until the end. What I also saw today, but it wasn’t at City – and at City we are not the only team that struggles in the first half – and in every other game we’ve played, we’ve been the dominant team and we were able to create chances.
Like I said, lately it is almost constantly that we miss our chances and then ones go in that we concede, but that will never continue throughout the whole season. We need to have that moment of energy of scoring a goal. If you are playing well and you go 1-0 up, the other team feels, ‘We’ve played half an hour now and we are 1-0 down and we’ve hardy seen the ball…’ The opposite thing happened – they got a big, big, big energy boost from scoring the 1-0. I see a lot of things where in a normal situation the result would have been different, but we are now in a difficult situation and then you need to do even more to get your results than when things go in your favour.
