Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admitted his performance did not live up to expectations in Sunday’s defeat to Arsenal.The Reds are back in action this weekend against Burnley.
Klopp: “After all these years in England, I’m still not 100% sure I get every word 100% right. Failure? I lost the match and that was it. Absolute. Later people said we only lost to Tottenham. Before that it was City. I didn’t feel a second. I felt like I lost a game, five games if I wanted to, not because of the top situation. “Because we lost the game and we didn’t perform well, so it shows what it looks like and how it works. Probably the best game of the season, just a few days before we play a large part of the game. It was a very good game, a perfect performance against Chelsea. It was a top performance.”Last night everyone saw how good Chelsea can be if they let Arsenal go and Arsenal played well and we had our share but not too much.” Obviously, this is always a challenge for managers.Â
What are you doing? ignore? Or put your finger on [the problem]. It’s always there somewhere. We don’t take these things lightly and think, ‘Oh, this could happen, we could lose at Arsenal.'”We want to do better than we’ve done so far, that’s what we’re trying to do, that’s what we want and we have to respond, that’s the only good thing. You can react and we have to. Absolutely 100%. So a lot of things, especially against the ball, weren’t even close to our standards. But it is not an exaggeration to say that we did not score any goals. It is 100% correct. But it’s all because of our defense. “So that was the main issue we discussed: This is what we need to do better. “That’s going to make us better, and that’s the first step.”
