Liverpool’s players have revealed how half-time fireworks in the away dressing room provoked their second half reaction against Manchester City.

In fiery exchange, manager Jurgen Klopp demanded his players impose his bold gameplan as they trailed 1-0, the German coach adamant his side will live or die by his methods.

“He has the fire in him to get you all motivated and that is what he did at half-time,” revealed Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

“He calmed us all down and then gave us a little bit of a rocket and just said, 'No matter what we do now, if we go though, we go out, we are going to do it our way’, and I think we did that much better in the second half. That is credit to him and the rest of the coaching staff.

“We just said we need to get a grip of ourselves and really try to control the game as we were still in a strong position and in the lead and we needed to do better than we did in the first half. We said whatever we do we are going to play our way.”