The storm has passed in Liverpool but calm is still far from coming. Coach Jürgen Klopp has delivered scoldings left and right in the squad, which, according to him, has been far below his possibilities and has even terrified him.
The 4-1 thrashing that Napoli dealt him in his Champions League debut is still spinning in his head: “I had a lot of thoughts and a meeting with the players… I watched the game many times and, to be honest, it was a real horror show and the boys knew it. But we showed them the situations: seeing it again made it really obvious. It was the worst game we played since I got here, “he said at a press conference.
Jürgen Klopp explained how we will try to use the lessons learned in defeat at Napoli as we aim to respond against AFC Ajax on Tuesday night ⤵️
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In his balance there is very little that he could rescue: “You must understand why that happened. That is not something common, it is something individual. I think that almost 8 of the 11 were absolutely below his level. The other three were not in the upper level, just a normal level,” explained the DT.
The Colombian Luis Díaz, the only one who showed some rebelliousness and who scored the discount goal, could be the only one who did not pass in the red. In fact, according to the local press, he was the only one who deserved 7 rating points.
Defensive flaws, which all critics have pointed out in recent days, are the priority for the German, who did not speak specifically about players but alluded to everyone’s obligation to recover the suffocating brand DNA that makes Liverpool so fearsome: “That’s the first thing we have to do. You have to follow a common idea again and everything we’ve done since I’ve been here and everything my teams do in football is based on really solid defense, if not almost perfect. There It is where everything begins and we have to work on that”, he concluded.
