"Look, I am not over the moon about this performance but, again, the only thing that happened really is that we lost against a good side, who we lost [to] two weeks ago in a horrendous game," Jurgen Klopp told a post-match conference, as quoted by Liverpool's official website.
"Today was much better. With the performance from today two weeks ago, that would've looked different as well. There are really steps.
"There's no other way – and you know it as good as I do – [than] to fight through. You never hear a manager sitting in a situation like this, 'By the way, we change that and then you will see against Wolves.' It doesn’t go like this and that’s why we keep working 100 per cent.
"Again, I'm very sorry, probably a lot of Liverpool fans are from Brighton, so they saw us now twice in two weeks. They were brilliant, absolutely brilliant again. Today we paid a little bit back, I would say.
"They saw a goal, they saw chances, so it was better. In the end, one goal is deflected and one is in the 92nd minute, so that's a bad piece of the truth as well. You should not forget that, but we are still out and that's obviously the worst outcome of a game you can have.
"But from here we can go and we will."
Liverpool opened the scoring through Harvey Elliott in the first half but Brighton equalised shortly after that. Kaoru Mitoma won the game for the Seagulls in the added time.
Liverpool are knocked out of the FA Cup. They are still alive in the Champions League, where they will meet Real Madrid in the Round of 16 in February and March.
