It STILL may not save him, but this was Ten out of 10

JURGEN KLOPP believes his team should have seen off Manchester United before Amad Diallo’s dramatic late winner.

But the Liverpool boss admitted that it was the first time this season that he had seen his side ‘struggling’.

Klopp said: “We could have won the game and we would have deserved it.

“We were outstanding but we had to finish the game off and we didn’t.

“At 2-1 up, we had so many chances to kill the game off – we were in a rush in some moments and the rest is already history.

“The boys gave everything. It was a period in the second half when we should have finished it but we didn’t and we knew they could come back.

“My boys showed incredible character again… it was the first time I saw my team struggling.

“You cannot compare our season to United’s with the amount of games.”

After Alexis Mac Allister and Mo Salah had responded to

Scott Mctominay’s opener, Liverpool dominated but failed to make their superiority count.

“Our decision-making was not great,” said Klopp. “Our second half was exceptional but when we didn’t finish the game off, it got really hard for us.

“The decision-making doesn’t get better the longer the game goes on. Congratulations to United for going to the semi-final.”

IT was not quite in the same league as Jose Mourinho’s dash towards an Old Trafford corner flag when he was Porto boss... but it was a fine effort from Erik ten Hag.

And if anyone was entitled to skip along the touchline in his jacket, cardigan and tie – after the most dramatic of winners from 21-year-old Amad Diallo – it was the Manchester United manager.

This stunning victory, this most unlikely triumph, this season-saving miracle, belonged as much to Ten Hag as it did to the players whose spirit yesterday proved beyond question.

It was Ten Hag’s changes that put United into the last four at the expense of a Liverpool team that looked in full control after Alexis Mac Allister, with the aid of a deflection, and Mohamed Salah had responded to Scott Mctominay’s opener.

It was Ten Hag’s boldness that somehow bamboozled a Liverpool team that had exuded a confidence that occasionally bordered on arrogance.

It was Ten Hag’s do-or-die tactics that finished the fanciful notion that Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp