Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp demands his side is "not in fantasy land" in the wake of taking a 3-1 lead from the away leg of their Champions League quarter-last tie against Benfica.
The Reds drove 2-0 at half-time following a prevailing opening 45 minutes in Tuesday late evening's gathering in Lisbon on account of objectives from Ibrahima Konate and Sadio Mane.
Konate's mistake permitted Darwin Nunez to divide the shortfall not long after the restart and seemed to allow the Portuguese to the side once again into the tie yet Luis Diaz scored late on to reestablish the two-objective pad in front of the following week's return leg at Anfield.
Diogo Jota then botched a significantly later opportunity to make it four and unquestionably put the bind to sleep when played through by Jordan Henderson, yet Klopp had no bad things to say at full-time.
"Coming here and dominating an away match in the Champions League is extreme," Klopp told BT Sport. "Benfica battled for their lives, we gave them a tad to an extreme yet they merited the objective also, despite the fact that we might have protected better - they had counterattacks, it isn't difficult to keep the ball constantly, and the more gamble you take, they have great players.
"It was an extreme game, what I expected, the group was there, we realized 2-0 isn't anything, decent however not more. They score the objective and it was significantly more open than we needed yet the goalie was likely the best player and made two or three great recoveries - we are two objectives up, half-time, we should continue onward.
"We ordinarily score more [in those situations] yet we didn't, mostly in light of the fact that the goalie, credit to him, and that is basically the story. We might have scored as of now, 4-1 would be great yet we are not in fairyland here.
"We discover substantially more about our adversary, they succeeded at Ajax, we know about the quality and have a decent game in the middle however at that point we will be prepared once more."
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