Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp had a lot of time for striker Diogo Jota this week.

The German was speaking with reporters after his team's 2-0 win over Union-Saint Gilloise in the Europa League on Thursday.

Klopp was delighted to see Portuguese attacker Jota net in the success, given the striker was despondent after his red card against Tottenham at the weekend.

Klopp told reporters post-game: “Very good. How should he deal with it? I knew that it would be difficult when yesterday I spoke about the other game. I knew and you proved to me again just how the world is. I think everybody who was here heard what I said but everybody understood something else; it's OK.

“But if I made the impression yesterday that I was still in the game against Tottenham, I was not at all. That's long ago. We are over that. That's fine and Diogo is that as well and Joel could've played tonight because he's over it as well. That's all fine. We are not children or whatever. We just had a few questions to answer and did that and that's it.

“From a focus point of view, it was not a problem to focus on the game. I would say in the game it was a problem to keep being focused because that's how it looked a little bit. We got a bit sluggish and stuff like this. I didn't like that too much but that's obviously neither with Diogo nor with the team anything to do with the last game or the last week. It's just because that's the challenge of football anyway."