Jurgen Klopp admits he ‘felt strange’ Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Burnley.
The Reds were held by Sean Dyche’s side at Anfield on Saturday despite recording 35 shots and enjoying the majority of chances and possession.
Mohamed Salah had to pull the hosts level just three minutes after Scott Arfield had given the Clarets a shock lead midway through the first half.
Liverpool failed to take advantage of their spells of dominance, particularly near the end of the game when substitute Dominic Solanke hit the crossbar.
Appeals for a penalty in the build-up to the striker’s miss were waved away as Salah went down under the weight of a challenge in the Burnley area.
“It feels strange, it feels wrong, but it’s a fact – we drew,” said Klopp.
“A lot of parts of the game I was really happy with.
“We made seven changes but it was still really fluent, it looked like proper football – offensive football, dominant football, possession football how it should be.
“We created moments. You cannot create in each situation a finishing situation, but we did it absolutely often enough.
“It could have been more often, of course, because with one better decision here or there then we would have had a few more.
“But it was the best game against Burnley since I’m here, obviously not result-wise but performance-wise for sure.
“[We were] unlucky, I would say, in and around the penalty situation.
“For me, it’s a penalty, I cannot change this even when I saw the pictures back after the game.
“We still had the chance to score but unfortunately we hit the crossbar. Obviously fortune didn’t wear a Liverpool shirt today.
“I don’t want to ignore that they had two headers at the end of the game; that would have been typical a little bit for us if they would have scored in these situations.
“It was a very disciplined performance of the opponent, and also disciplined of my side.
“This one goal, that’s where we have to improve most, to switch the mood in being offensive, being offensive – do, do, do all the time – and then this one situation, a little block here and we missed Arfield, or forgot him, and he can score then.
“So it doesn’t feel good.”