Jurgen Klopp is ignoring Manchester City in the race for the Premier League title – and refuses to be overly critical of his Liverpool team after their Arsenal frustration.

The Reds conceded an equaliser eight minutes from time as they were held to a 1-1 draw at the Emirates on Saturday evening.

Despite maintaining their unbeaten start to the season, the stalemate means Klopp's side have slipped two points behind leaders City and are behind second-placed Chelsea on goal difference.

And asked if the expectation Pep Guardiola's reigning champion will achieve at least 90 points again this season is something he has to ignore, the Reds boss said: “Yes. And I do.

“I'm not interested in how many points Man City get. So far they have one from us.

“If they have 89 more I can have no influence on that. I'm not interested in that.”

A section of Liverpool supporters on social media were deeply unhappy with the performance at the Emirates, even though the Reds hit the post twice and saw a Sadio Mane strike wrongly given offside.

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And Klopp believes Liverpool should maintain a sense of perspective after matching their best-ever start to a Premier League campaign.

“It's really difficult for me to stand here after a point against Arsenal and be too critical because I don't want to be,” he said.

“Yes, I know, in a lot of situations we could have done better. But we play for results and got a point. We could have maybe got three.

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“Why should I talk (critically) about that? We have 27 points from 11 games, and I know myself long enough and will never stop pointing the finger at things, but actually not here.

“When I say critical things, then we have a real problem. I've said to the boys that I am fine with the result, I'm fine with big parts of the performance, but I know we could have been better.”

Klopp added: “We are in a good moment as a team and a club. Everything is fine. Even if we'd been in a bad moment, we'd go to Belgrade on Tuesday and want to win.

“Your job (journalists) is to make a final out of every game. If we'd have lost to Arsenal, the whole start (to the season) was average or worse... if we lose at Belgrade – and that can happen – then everything in the Champions League is gone.

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“We have to be calmer. It was very important on Saturday and very, very important on Tuesday, and it's only a few days until we go there.”

Liverpool fly out to Serbia on Monday morning ahead of their Champions League date with Red Star Belgrade the following night.

The Reds won the reverse fixture 4-0 at Anfield last month, but Klopp admits this will be a completely different proposition.

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“It won't be a children's birthday,” he said. “It will be really tough. We have to be ready for that, that's our life, but I don't judge it.

“We take it, we analyse it, then let's go in the next game. Find the right line-up, let's play football and everything is good.”