We got carried away, says Jurgen Klopp, after Liverpool edge AC Milan in thriller

With fans exclusive Anfield for a Champions League lucifer for the first-year time in 18 months, Liverpool began in thrilling manner and vulnerable to run riot aft Fikayo Tomori's own goal bimanual them a ninth-minute lead.

Liverpool had 13 goal attempts in the initiatory 15 proceedings but incredibly establish themselves tracking at halftime as Ante Rebic and Brahim Diaz affected for Milano shortly before halftime.

But goals by Mohamed Salah, who lost a first-half penalty, and Jordan Henderson's 69th-minute piledriver locked an earthshaking tercet points in a intimidating aggroup that also includes Porto and Atletico Madrid, who drew 0-0.

"We started incredibly well. We played a super, fantastic game. An concentrated game but football wise as well," Klopp said of Liverpool's barnstorming offse to the clang of the European heavyweights -- only their 3rd ever meeting.

"We got rebuked in the last few proceedings of the inaugural half but it started earlier. We got carried away by our own football. We didn't keep it retarded anymore, offensively and defensively we were not organized anymore.

"But it did not feel like we cannot come back. It was unqualified that we had to immediately get back to how we started and then we scored extraordinary goals. It is condign but we had 10 transactions where Milan nearly denatured the livelong tie."

Aft the looted stadiums for last season's Champions League campaign, Klopp revelled in a replication to the limited air created by the Kop on European nights at Anfield -- punching the air repeatedly aft the last whistle.

Asked if he had enjoyed it, Klopp said: "Yeah, isolated from those 10 minutes! It's the football I want to see to be honest, in most of the moments."

"Liverpool played a heavy game especially in the first-class honours degree 25 minutes. Then we turned it, the ruefulness is the two goals conceded in the moment half, also due to our mistakes," he said.

"It was a game that will make us grow a lot in footing of chroma and quality. We go home with the sentience that the team can grow and that the Champions League stage is really high, we will have to try even harder."

(Reporting by Martyn Herman; Redaction by Toby Davis)