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Liverpool fans were getting growingly frustrated by Newcastle’s gamesmanship as the second half wore on with Klopp visibly annoyed at the time-wasting tactics. And Klopp felt his side had the last laugh with Carvalho’s late winner being the perfect response.

“Football can go in both directions but tonight it went in the right one, a perfect end of the game,” he said. “I am really happy that everyone saw it tonight. It was hard to take.

“It was a difficult game anyway, Newcastle invested a lot to close us down. They were close to getting pretty much everything for it. Of course everyone wants to see a football game and when it is interrupted that often it is not nice for anybody.

“The only chance we have, not just for this game but in general, the referee has to pick earlier yellow cards. I don’t know when the kicking the ball away stopped being a yellow card. When did this rule die? I had no idea if that tonight it was on purpose or if they players really had to go down because slightly injured. I don’t know.”