"I think we definitely all saw the same game, so for us it was a deserved win for Union," Jurgen Klopp told a press conference after Liverpool's 2-1 defeat in Belgium.
"Even though I heard now the first goal might have been offside but nobody can tell properly. We will see that, but who cares?
"They are well set up, they are top of the table, they played a stronger side, I mixed up the team completely, so I think the changes we made, the amount of changes, were too much for rhythm.
"We needed to grow into the game. I am really happy that happened in the second half more and more and that we gave it a game, a proper game in the end. Before that, they gave us possession, won the balls on counter-attack and it was really tricky, to be honest.
"It was pretty intense on a really difficult pitch. It was not great and you saw how intense it was, a couple of players had cramps for Union. So, in the end we could have scored the equaliser and it would have been nice, we would have loved to have got the point here.
"For some it was a really important experience and for others good for rhythm. I saw good performances and, of course, as a team it is not a fair assessment if I say now they are top of the table in Belgium and we come here, bring kids – altogether that's really difficult. But I thought we gave it a go and that's OK for me. Nobody got hurt, nobody is injured, so we recover, go home and go again."
Regardless of the result, Liverpool would've finished top of their Europa League group which was the reason behind Klopp's lineup experiments.
Now, players like Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah who did not travel to Belgium have rested enough ahead of a clash with Man United on Sunday.
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