Jürgen on Reds' never-say-die attitude and hectic schedule

On a potential replay…

I don’t want a replay! I would like to win without a second game, that’s right. The situation is like this, in this moment in England there are only two clubs in all competitions - Manchester City and ourselves - so it’s a really busy time. Since Norwich, I've heard about Leicester having three days off, Tottenham were in Barcelona and I don’t know what the others clubs did but not training everyday. We played and that’s a big difference, but everything is good. We came through and now we have to think about the West Ham game. For the Stoke game, [it] maybe was not the best football ever but on one side it was successful and on the other side it was intensive. We broke all records, the squad ran 156 kilometres. I have had a few games with overtime and this number of kilometres [is something] I’ve never had. Stoke only had three kilometres less, so it was intensive, everybody was fighting for each yard and that’s how it is. We can’t ignore this and we will not ignore this.

On the players’ hectic schedule…

The players are not in a position to be concerned or moan about it. To play every three days is difficult, it is like it is. Of course, it’s difficult to stay highly concentrated to do ‘this’ and ‘this’, other clubs might have time because they went out of a cup or whatever so they use the time, but in all the other moments they have the same situation. We are one month after Boxing Day but we are still here and we played two spectacular games at the end of this period, now we go on. The players are professional football players and I am a manager, I like playing. Of course usually you should train between [games] and when we can't, we recover. That’s the situation.

On what the Capital One Cup final appearance will do for team morale...

I can’t give you the answer now but of course it was great. The last two games were great for us. Norwich was a great experience, that something like this is possible. It’s great that we were on the good side. Then the same with the Stoke game, so both games were very intensive for us but very successful. Of course that helps in terms of becoming a better team but we are still a good team in the understanding of [the word]. We are all good together, there’s no problem between the players or something like this. They all like each other and they work hard, that’s the truth. We will see what it really [does] in the long-term and [the] influence it will have. At the moment, we feel much better than we would have if we lost both games of course.

On his team never giving up...

We cannot say we planned this [the late Norwich winner]. It was a big portion of luck in this situation. The team showed in the last few weeks very often they don’t give up in a game. A few times we have had a problem of not having the best start. Sometimes we conceded the first goal and too often, in my opinion, we need to strike back but sometimes it's worked, that’s the truth. That’s how you learn, that’s how you learn in life as a footballer and for life in general. That’s what we always try to do, take the right information out of the games and use it in the next game. That’s the plan but all the games are different and that’s the problem. But next time when we are 4-3 in the lead and have a goal [that makes it] 4-4, I’m sure everybody will think ‘there’s still a possibility'. As long as nobody has heard the final whistle, there’s still an opportunity for us.