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Published 12:14 25 Oct 2018 BST
Asked for his thoughts on his performance, Klopp responded: "Very good. Very, very good. The present for his birthday was not that he was in the line-up, it was that we played his favourite system with a double-six!
"He played really well and it was good to see. He was very aggressive and everything was there. For his first game for a while, his second [start] from the beginning, it was good, really good.
"It is quite impressive what people saw tonight. It always helps a player if you play a good game - it helped us tonight and helped him. That was the start, so let’s carry on."
A short compilation from BT Sport highlights how effective he was at breaking up play from the opposition during the game, completing nine tackles in 90 minutes.
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