The reaction I wanted – Jurgen Klopp hails Liverpool's win over Napoli

Jurgen Klopp has never doubted Liverpool's quality and was pleased by the way his side bounced back from their latest setback by overcoming in-form Napoli in the Champions League.

Having gone closer than any side in English football history to winning an unprecedented quadruple, things have gone awry since just falling short in the Premier League and Champions League at the end of last season.

Klopp’s Jekyll-and-Hyde side lost 2-1 at home to embattled Leeds on Saturday evening, leading him to reject talk that this Liverpool squad had reached the end of its useful lifespan.

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The German’s team responded to that loss with a 2-0 win against Napoli on Tuesday, with late goals from Mohamed Salah and substitute Darwin Nunez sealing a 2-0 triumph as they qualified from Group A as runners-up.

"The reaction I wanted to see," Klopp said after the Anfield victory. "We all agreed that we have to show a reaction and we did in a very difficult game against a really good opponent.

"We don’t doubt the quality. I don’t think anybody doubts that quality but that’s part of the problem. We don’t show it with consistency.

"That’s why I mention the second goal against Leeds as an example for our situation. We are chasing the game even when it’s around our 18-yard box. You can see nobody wants to have a throw-in for Leeds, then they can let time run down, and no-one protects the box, pretty much, because everyone thinks we have three players out there and we will win the ball.

"That’s a little bit of the situation we are in. That’s where we have to make a proper step back and tonight we did that."

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