Liverpool's 2-2 draw against Manchester City was certainly a game of two halves, which manager Jurgen Klopp outlined in his post-match interview.
The Reds were fortunate not to be a goal or two down at the break and second-half, they looked a completely different side as a Sadio Mane strike put them ahead.
City were quick to respond through Phil Foden and they did so again after Mohamed Salah gave Liverpool the lead a second time, Kevin De Bruyne the one to strike back on this occasion.
The points were shared and it was a result Klopp was 'fine' with, given his side's first half performance.
Here is every word he said to Sky Sports in a detailed tactical breakdown after the final whistle:
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"First and foremost when you play Man City, Man City are a proper team, so there are ways to defend it but you have to close down spaces and for that you have to step out in specific moments.
"That’s what City want to do, play through the centre, that’s the first idea. But if centre’s closed - they leave the two wingers high and wide, pass the ball there, it’s a big switch or just a pass. One situation in the box these kind of things, I’m not sure I saw a lot of games where City could pass the ball that easy through half spaces, so between our winger and our eight, it was constantly 'pff'. So what was the reason for that?
"We in our last line [were] too passive, we called the midfield line back so neither Jordan Henderson nor Curtis Jones could step out when needed, when necessary, so we were passive; they passed through us we turned and go. They had chances, they didn’t score from that but what that gives you is a bad feeling, this bad feeling leads to not playing football, so then we had those long balls which made no sense, one or two of them maybe made sense - all the rest I didn’t see the reason for.
"All these things we changed in the second half, immediately you could see we were higher, more aggressive, we felt closer, more compact so they couldn’t play in the way they wanted - we were now in the game, we scored wonderful goals.
"The message was 'play the extra pass' and we didn’t do that in the first half at all. I’m really happy, second half I’m really happy with the strong opponent we want them in a game like this yes, but we have to admit today because the game has two halves the point is completely fine.
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"Thank god a football game has two halves, we are really about the second and not so much about the first, for obvious reasons. We did a lot of wrong in the first half, City did a lot of things right, the result we could see in the first half so we never got really in the game, never won the chances in the right moments, it’s much worse we never played enough football so I was probably most happy in my career about the half-time whistle because it’s tricky.
"They were getting contact players to change lanes, I obviously never planned that we played like this, we needed half time and we used half time and we played a really good second half so if you only watch the second, if you imagine someone missed the first half and watched the second one they think ‘oh my god Liverpool were really good’ if someone had to leave after the first half they were thinking ‘oh my god Liverpool who is that’ makes sense you watch both halves would’ve been fine.
"The second half I would’ve loved to have won the game, but together with the first half I’m fine with the point."
It was certainly a game that lived up to expectations, between two teams that will no doubt be battling it out for the title come the end of the season.
