Jurgen Klopp praised his fringe players as Liverpool defeated Arsenal in their FA Cup Third Round tie in London.

Klopp saw his shadow XI win 2-0 in London on Sunday.

He later enthused: 'Wataru Endo was not here tonight, Dom Szoboszlai was not here tonight, Andy Robertson was not here tonight, Kostas Tsimikas was not here tonight, Thiago Alcantara was not here tonight, Stefan Bajcetic was not here tonight, Joel Matip was not here tonight. So, that's a really good football team we missed. And if I forgot somebody, sorry! Football is like that. Sometimes you have them all available, it's pretty rare, and sometimes you don't have them available. I'm super-happy.

"That's why I said, first half you could see it didn't click. It was not because of new players or whatever, it was just the timing was bad and that doesn't help. Pressing rhythm and timing are extremely important – and we didn't have either. I said to the boys in the meeting before the game: humans are like that.

: It's a tough game, nobody comes to Arsenal and wins just like this [clicks fingers], so in this game there will be difficult moments [and] if we start in these moments – which humans very often do – [looking] for excuses and then we realise who else is not here, it's normal that we have these problems, then we are screwed.

"But if you know these kinds of things you can avoid it – and that's what we did. The boys enjoyed the game, at least in the second half. That's really cool. Staying in a game that looked in the first half like that, then growing into a game, is a pretty special thing to do. Especially an away game. So I'm really happy, with both halves then because we can learn from both."