"I'm a local lad so the derby is really important to me and I would have liked nothing better than to play the full game and to be on the pitch when we got the winner," said the Liverpool skipper.
"But as it turned out I was taken off and Lucas Leiva who replaced me played a crucial role in us getting the winning goal.
"I was hurt and disappointed at being taken off because, like I said, I'm a local lad and the derby means everything to me.
"I'll be speaking to the manager about it just to find out why I was substituted, but I won't be banging on his door or anything like that.
"We'll just have a chat and whatever is said will remain between us. But I've been in the game long enough to know that no-one is going to play every minute of every game and there will be times when I'm taken off like everyone else.
"The most important thing is that we won the game.
"When we lost there last season it left a bad feeling that didn't go away for quite some time, so it is good to get that out of our systems."
