Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp has known as on his gamers to stay collectively and combat their approach by way of their troubles this season.
The Reds fell to their first Premier League defeat in entrance of an Anfield crowd in virtually 5 years on Saturday as they had been bested 2-1 by Leeds United, with an 89th-minute strike from Crysencio Summerville bringing Virgil van Dijk’s house league file to an finish at 70 video games.
The defeat leaves Liverpool ninth within the league desk, nearer to the relegation zone than the highest 4 after 12 video games, and Klopp conceded his aspect are removed from their finest proper now.
“It was a setback, completely,” he instructed Sky Sports activities. “I assumed we had a very good begin then conceded a freakish objective.
“We scored the equaliser however for some purpose it did not give us the safety again. We struggled to regulate the sport and gave too many balls away.
“The boys tried, we had good possession and had huge probabilities however, in the long run, whether it is 1-1 and also you defend the state of affairs across the second objective like this, you allow all the pieces open.
“Ultimately, it was two versus one within the field and so they can end off the state of affairs. The issue is we can not management one of these recreation in the meanwhile.”
Requested how you can repair his aspect’s present points, Klopp directed the eye in the direction of his aspect’s harm struggles, insisting a variety of his prime gamers merely haven’t had the time to get again to their finest type due to a busy schedule and a skinny squad.
“Perhaps some gamers are overplayed, Harvey [Elliott] has been distinctive for us this season,” Klopp started. “He had an excellent begin however could not maintain it going. Thiago has been ailing, up entrance the identical [players] play on a regular basis – they’re the three strikers we now have left. We’ve got to combat and that’s what we should do.
“A workforce efficiency is at all times made up of particular person performances. One results in the opposite. You possibly can watch this recreation utterly, you can’t defend like we did for the second objective however we did, that is why we misplaced. In any other case, it could have been some extent and we go from there. Now we now have nothing and it feels utterly completely different.
“We’ve got to deliver our high quality on to the pitch and we combat in opposition to it. We had issues from the primary day, harm smart. Gamers have needed to play from the primary day. It is our state of affairs and it means we now have to assist ourselves, and that’s what we’ll do.”