Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hails his side after sealing a record in the UEFA Champions League with victory over AC Milan.
The Reds came back from a goal down as Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi’s second half goal gave them the victory.
Klopp’s side became the first English club to win all their six games in the Champions League group stage.
Speaking about the performance at San Siro Klopp said: “Honestly I don’t feel pride a lot in football because most of the time I expect good things to happen,” he said.
“But tonight there was a lot of pride, an exceptional performance; I don’t mean because we won six games, I mean this game because it was so good with that many changes.
“It is easy for me to make the changes, but the boys have to be confident enough to show how good they are and I saw so many good football things tonight which is incredible.
“And we won all six games, which is absolutely incredible and just another chapter for this group of players.
“It’s not a prize (winning all six) and you win something; I’d have taken each points tally to go to the next round but 18 is the best so we take that as well.”
The German also spoke about how they were able to keep AC Milan’s danger man Zlatan Ibrahimovic quiet in the game.
“That’s football actually – that’s what you try, you organise a football team like that, that he cannot get the balls he needs or he wants. I really thought we defended exceptionally well.
“The plan of Milan is playing through the centre obviously, playing through the half-spaces. This is the spaces between the winger and our eights. They don’t play immediately to Zlatan, they try to bring it to the other offensive player in these spaces, and we made that really complicated because of the disciplined work of all the players.
“When you then get only the other balls, not the controlled ones then it’s easier to defend. But I have to say that Nat Phillips and Ibou Konate played an exceptional game, an absolutely exceptional game. How they defended that tonight is outstanding and I am really, really proud of the boys.”
