Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits Leeds United youngster has haunted his dreams since Anfield

Crysencio Summerville's Anfield winner for Leeds United has haunted the dreams of Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.
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The young Dutchman found the net in the 90th minute of Saturday night's fixture to give Leeds their first victory in nine outings and a massive boost at a difficult time. Liverpool have been going through what Klopp calls a 'rough moment' themselves and Summerville's dramatic late strike has only added to that. Speaking ahead of a Champions League clash with Napoli this week, Klopp admits he has struggled to get the sight of the 21-year-old's goal out of his mind - even at night.

“I still woke up at night over that second goal. Oh my god," he said. "I'm 55 I go a couple of times per night on the toilet, that's why I wake up usually but this time the goal was in my mind."

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The German's analysis of Leeds' winner points to his side's motivation to find a late goal of their own, which ultimately left them without the point they were holding with 89 minutes played.

"There's a reason why it happened to concede these situations," he said. "The boys want to win the game, that's actually the message from this situation. Instead of defending the draw in this moment in time. Because we don't want to have a throw-in for Leeds, you can see that, because then they can play the time down, it's a minute. We don't close the centre because we expect to win the ball so we're already in a better position when we win the ball. In the end from possibly outnumbering Leeds in three different situations we end up in a one-v-two in the box and that's what's happened. That makes life not easier, of course not. We expect more from ourselves, the boys expect more, I expect more from them."

Klopp also bemoaned the circumstances in which Leeds took an early lead on Merseyside, capitalising on an errant Joe Gomez back pass to make it 1-0 through Rodrigo. The fourth minute empty net finish made it seven occasions this season when the Reds have conceded the first goal but Klopp does not want it lumped in with other early concessions.

"The last [first] goal we conceded could not be more different to all the other goals we conceded," he said. "It was not a phase where we were down, where Leeds played around us, through us, over us, under us, everything - we set the goal up for them."

Klopp went on to insist his side put together good moments against Leeds, that should be taken into consideration, and praised visiting stopper Illan Meslier for an 'exceptional' game.