Jurgen Klopp credited Liverpool's half-time team talk as the turning point after they obliterated Rangers 7-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Scott Arfield's opener was cancelled out by Roberto Firmino's header before the two teams went in level at the break and the first-half performance was a disappointing one in-keeping with much of the season so far.
However, Liverpool looked a much slicker unit after the restart as they scored six times that included a six-minute-and-12-second hat-trick from substitute Mohamed Salah alongside efforts from Darwin Nunez, Harvey Elliott and a second from Firmino, who made it 2-1 on the night.
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"We had a really positive half time talk," Klopp said. "We conceded a goal, scored an equaliser and had really good football moments, and we wanted more of that in the second half.
"We showed the boys which spaces we could play in. We knew especially if we could keep them moving, with the way they play, it could be really intense.
"In the end we needed to get clearer in the final third, which obviously worked out! All the goals were absolutely great, how we played them and set them up and finished them off. That was the decisive part.
"A game is 95 minutes usually, so if you can build on parts of the first half you have to do that, and we did."
Klopp added: "Last night somebody told me that the atmosphere here is always the same. OK, that is not the case, but it is normal. The atmosphere was top when Arfield scored and after that each challenge was celebrated, stuff like this.
"In these moments it is always important you calm the atmosphere down but that is only possible with football. You cannot do it with half-challenges because that keeps [fans] on their toes.
"That’s the part I’m most pleased with. I’m happy that we scored goals, but if we win the game 2-1 as well then I am over the moon. The way it went, it can happen. We were really just on it and meeting us at the wrong moment is not cool."
Liverpool will be in the last 16 of the Champions League if they avoid defeat to Ajax in Amsterdam later this month.
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