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Connor Dunn

Jurgen Klopp is 'not concerned' about Liverpool not scoring against Newcastle

Liverpool squandered a number of golden opportunities against Newcastle in a disappointing 0-0 draw.

There were a number of chances for Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane but home goalkeeper Karl Darlow produced a top-class display to deny the Reds at every turn.

Despite the Premier League champions failing to score, manager Jurgen Klopp has explained why he's "not concerned" about the ball not being put in the back of the net on Wednesday night.

The German boss said: "I’m not happy about the result, but I’m not overly-frustrated.

"It’s football, and if you don’t use your chances then it’s difficult to win a game. But you can have a draw with a bad performance or a draw with a good performance, and tonight was a a draw with a good performance.

"We just didn’t use the chances, and that’s why I am OK with the game.

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"Not scoring is only a concern if you don’t create. If you create, it’s just momentum. If you keep creating, you will score.

"I know we will score again, that’s how it is. It’s not a problem in the moment. We needed to show a reaction from the second half against West Brom, because we lost the plot a little bit there, it looked in that second half like we were 1-0 down and not 1-0 up.

"Tonight was a very good reaction to that, without getting the result. Everybody knows if we win 1-0 then everybody is over the moon, and we should have won the game at least 1-0.

"But we didn’t, and we have to accept that. But I can work with this performance, I can work with the things we saw tonight.

"We can build on that, we don’t have to change in the next three or four days as if everything is going wrong."

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