Roberto Firmino's victor lifted the Reds to third in the race for Champions League qualification after a 1-0 triumph on Sunday.
As in last weekend's win at Stoke City, the Belgian made a pivotal save - foiling Matt Phillips in a one-on-one with ten minutes remaining - and also stood tall in the face of a late aerial barrage by Albion. Albion have enjoyed an excellent season and are still eighth, but there are signs that things are tailing off now that they have passed the 40-point barrier. Maybe then I would have felt okay, but now it's done. I think three, four, five fists away, which was really good, I have to say. "They have really good footballers on the pitch, and if you are a little bit less aggressive then they use their threat around set-pieces to play football".
West Brom threw everyone forward in stoppage time in desperate search of an equaliser and Liverpool should have scored a late second when goalkeeper Ben Foster was caught upfield. "I would have been happy for him, actually, if he'd scored this goal, but [there was] excitement until the end, which is pretty much always the way it is when we are involved".
"It is one of the most hard places to go because you can't feel comfortable in one moment of the game", said Klopp.
This was the first time that Liverpool had won at The Hawthorns in ages, and Tony Pulis's first loss against Liverpool in a home game, since he got promoted with Stoke City in the 2008-09 season.
Only the top four English clubs are guaranteed a place in next season's Champions League and Liverpool are now six points ahead of fifth-placed Manchester United, although their bitter northwest rivals do have two games in hand.
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Chris Brunt pulled back Divock Origi, earning a booking for his troubles, and the Northern Ireland international's indiscipline was punished when Lucas Leiva flicked on James Milner's delivery from the right and Firmino headed home.
With 10 minutes left, Mignolet saved Liverpool's blushes after stopping a one-on-one against Phillips.
Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has targeted further improvement as Jurgen Klopp's men close in on Champions League qualification.
Tony Pulis, desperate to protect an unbeaten home record against Liverpool, sent goalkeeper Ben Foster up into attack for a corner in injury time, but disaster almost struck when the home side lost possession, putting substitute Alberto Moreno on the break.
"There's a lot of people who are said that we aren't defending as well as we could but today we proved that we can", Mignolet said. They had great possession, played through us too easily and had two really good chances to score.
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