Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his side are taking a ‘little step’ in the right direction following their goalless draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday evening.

The Reds and the Blues were unable to separate themselves in Tuesday night’s Premier League matchup.

VAR ruled that Kai Havertz’s 51st-minute shot was disallowed for handball, while Joe Gomez and Fabinho were Liverpool’s closest scorers in the first half.

In the capital, neither team was able to find a goal to break the stalemate, so the teams split the points.

“Gained. It’s an away game; this was not the most spectacular 0-0 I ever saw. I saw two of them – Liverpool v Chelsea – last year, the two finals, [they were] absolutely insane. Very similar teams I would say, but completely different football because of a different level of confidence for both teams,” Klopp told his club’s official website.

“This was the fight we have to show tonight, this was the way we have to start our development again. We cannot now hope – because we did a couple of things that were absolutely not like they should have been – that we fixed it overnight. I decided to make six changes, that always against a good football team can be a problem.

“Three of them in the last line as well, which is obviously a real challenge for the players and we could see in the first few minutes they went direct, playing behind the last line, [and] we had a few problems there.

“Apart from that, they had their chances after we lost balls in moments where you just cannot lose balls. It’s now a problem we keep a little bit, that’s not good, but the recovery after that, the desire to sort the situation, I liked. Nil-nil, not the most spectacular one but a step for us. A little step, but a step in the right direction.

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