Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino bagged the goals before the break in the first-leg clash, which brought up a managerial landmark for Jürgen Klopp. "We scored two wonderful goals, we were in a lot of really unsafe situations".
Speaking after the first leg victory, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp jokingly apologised to Liverpool fans for not playing Henderson further forward more often, and revealed how key the Liverpool captain was in the win over Porto. Today he looked really good. It would be an absolute disaster if they go out from this position now.
"No two games are the same and Liverpool have to remember that in this tie against Porto. yes they beat this team easily last season, but that counts for nothing now".
" There were one or two counter-attacks, and in the second half we lost a little bit of our rhythm and a little bit of our direction, and we should've played a little bit more in behind."All good, 2-0, the game is still on, we have to go there, we have to fight.
Both sides seemed content with the 2-0 scoreline for much of the second half, with Porto seemingly happy to still be in the tie heading into the second leg, although the visitors' best chances continued to fall the way of Marega.
"The atmosphere in Porto will be really tough for us but this is a result we wanted before the game, now we have it and we have to work with it".
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Keys beamed and bent her knees and elbows in celebration after putting away Wozniacki's return at the net on match point.
"You have to believe otherwise you can just stay home next time".
"They have got lucky in a few games recently, especially against Tottenham, but they are also showing a real desire to win football matches and that is what teams that win trophies can do", he added.
For this match with Porto, then, Klopp's midfield didn't feature Georginio Wijnaldum, Liverpool's most consistent midfielder this campaign. "It was deflected, yes, but the boys worked the situation really well, and that was the half-space we wanted to use".
Porto were keen to get on the front foot early and nearly hit Liverpool with a hammer blow inside two minutes when the in-form Moussa Marega found space inside the area, but he could not wrap his foot around the ball and ended up firing comfortably wide of the target.
"In Porto we finished them off, tonight we didn't", the Liverpool manager said. The former was everything Liverpool thought they'd purchased last summer, a mixture of combative tackling in deep-lying positions and slaloming runs past opponents into the final third. "But we've got to be pleased".
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