Klopp said: "You can go through my career, it's really rare we play for nothing in the last two games.
"I count maybe two or three times. I'm not used to that. I'm not sure I'm great at it to be honest. I wanted us to show character because I don't lack motivation because of negative possibilities but we all know if they win today, 3-0 or 4-0 then everyone's going for us because Villa.
"I saw a team with top character most importantly. For the character we showed today we should have five points but we got only one.
"The place was rocking and that's really difficult. They got the goals so maybe that's how it should have been today. I loved the performance and the character we showed. Now it's a home game which is slightly different but today we had to show that and the boys did it with flying colours."
On Jarell Quansah, he added: "Everybody can see, a young fella and he's happy lucky to play. He played an exceptional game today, trying to play against Ollie Watkins. You can ask that of a lot of centre-backs and they would struggle. He did extremely well. How often he saved our backside in decisive moments. Really nice development and he deserves that now."