Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool motivated by fans not ‘Holy Grail’ of title win

Klopp said: “In the end, we will see how many points we have and then we get what we get.

“We are motivated to play for this club. We have no influence on the other games, it is how it is. Our next game is against Huddersfield, which will be difficult again for different reasons.

“Some people up in Liverpool might ask us if we are thinking about Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals; we will be completely focused on Huddersfield.

“On Wednesday, there is a game as well [between Manchester United and Manchester City]. When we played Manchester United, they were in a much better moment than they are now and that was 0-0.”

Klopp was unhappy – as was counterpart Neil Warnock – that Cardiff had not watered the pitch during the game, but said that his side had prepared for it.

“The ball didn’t roll like normal. Everybody saw it,” he said. “It doesn’t make football easy when the pitch is dry.

“It makes it dangerous as well because of injuries.

“Dry pitches are dangerous for players injury-wise. I don’t know exactly why the pitch was dry – but we were prepared.

“We trained yesterday for one hour and 10 minutes on a bone-dry pitch just to get used to it.”