Gus Poyet: "We did something nobody expected.
"The game was set up for a big party, four or five goals (to Liverpool) and everyone celebrating after half an hour and the game went on and on and they couldn't score.
"The idea was always to stay in the game, not lose the shape, believe in the system which we've never played before.
"It is all new but it shows when you understand the game a certain way you can put teams like Liverpool, in the kind of form they are, under pressure.
"It was tense. Why we cannot do it at home, I don't know and I will kick myself thinking.
"All in all it was an unexpected performance from Sunderland."