New leaders turn up heat in title race

we enjoy it or not. It will be tough, sometimes it is nerve-racking and the heart rate will be 180/200 or whatever from time to time if you watch it or if you played.

“If we all enjoy this together we have a chance, if we don’t we still have a chance but it is much more difficult.

“That’s why we try to stay positive in all these moments.

“It’s a great situation the boys [have] brought us, we are there. I don’t know the points tally but it is another three.

“So we are up there with two other teams fighting for the biggest prize in English football and we will see how it will end up. I [have] decided I will really try hard to enjoy it.”

Luis Diaz and Mo Salah got the goals to overturn Danny Welbeck’s early opener for the Seagulls and hand Klopp his first win against Brighton head coach Roberto De Zerbi at the fifth attempt.

Salah missed some good chances before his 65th-minute winner, but Klopp said: “Imagine if Mo would have finished off all the situations in his career? That would be crazy, so it is absolutely fine.

“Mo, like the others, was in a bit of a rush to finish off situations and didn’t do it like they can do it.

“But then being that calm in the decisive moment with the biggest chance we had from the best football we played, that makes a real goalscorer so we are happy.”

De Zerbi has been linked with a move to Anfield when Klopp leaves Liverpool this summer.

The Italian insists he is still focused on the Seagulls but first wants to hold discussions with owner Tony Bloom over the plan for the club.

De Zerbi, above, said: “I’m going to speak to Tony about next season’s plans and then I’ll decide.

“To work next season at Brighton, I don’t need to extend.

“Now we have finished the discussion about contracts, but not because I have decided. It’s still open.”