Manchester City are not on their toes yet - Liverpool’s Klopp

vanquished

at Anfield courtesy of a brace from

Diogo Jota

on either half.

Jurgen Klopp

praised the player’s performance as well as

Luis Diaz

’s.

The win has put the Reds nine points adrift of leaders

, with a game in hand. Klopp, however, does not believe the gap is enough to bring trouble to Pep Guardiola’s side.

"

I am not sure we're in a position to get them on their toes, to be honest,

" he said.

"Actually, we have no chance to catch them, but it doesn't mean we won't play the best possible season for us.

"First and foremost, we have to win our football games and this club is massive. Since I'm here, I can't remember a game we lost and everyone said 'yeah, we can lose that game', so it's always the same situation.

"There's a game, we put on the shirts and we have to win it. It doesn't work out all the time, but thankfully it's happened a couple of times.

"It was really important tonight for us to win because there's not only Man City to catch or whatever, there are lots of teams behind us who want to get closer and that's a very important task as well.

"I don't think they smell our breath already, but we just try to win football games."

Klopp allowed Diaz have his Premier League debut against Leicester and the winger pulled off an impressive performance.

The manager said of his new signing:

"When we saw him playing for Porto, we thought 'yes, that's exactly what we want him to do as well'. On top of that, he seems to be a really smart footballer and has obviously watched us quite a lot.

"We don't want to overload new players with information in the first week and tell them everything we want from them in one week. But we took a look and he looked like a Liverpool player, it's true.

"The situation was made for it because Sadio (Mane) only came home last night and is probably still in bed. Mo, after four times with 120 minutes [at AFCON], it was clear he would not start as well so the situation was there and he enjoyed the game."

Jota scored his 16th and 17th goal for the season, with the manager certain he has yet to hit his full potential.

"

He is obviously in a really good goalscoring moment, which is incredibly helpful. It is always helpful, but it was now in the absence of Mo and Sadio extremely helpful,"

said Klopp.

"We knew he was good, but we had no idea how good, or where his limit is, or where he can go and I am not sure he is already there, he is just improving.

"If you speak to him you will realise he is a really smart person, so he will judge all that right and then will use that for the next steps.

"Diogo was not a bargain, it was not as if we got him for free. The first thing that was obvious about him was his potential that was there, the work-rate that he puts in - that was the most important.

"If you have that then there is always space for improvement. He's still a really young lad so you have to make the next steps in the team with us where we create much more chances than, with all due respect, Wolves did.

"You need a bit of fantasy for that and imagination, but we really thought he would be an outstanding player. He was already when he came here but he has improved."

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