Jurgen Klopp admits what he finds difficult to express his disappointment to his Liverpool players in English after a defeat. Liverpool slipped up against manager less Leicester last night, with Jamie Vardy’s double and Danny Drinkwater’s excellent strike handing the Foxes a deserved 3-1 victory at the King Power Stadium.
And German boss Klopp admits he finds it difficult to communicate with his players after a defeat, especially in English. “The language issues become a bit harder when you lose,” Klopp said after the defeat. “It’s hard to find the right words. “It’s not that Leicester were over aggressive tonight, I think we were not physical enough. They were well prepared, they were ready. “They had their set pieces well thought out and we were giving throw ins away and what’s frustrating is it’s not like we didn’t talk about that.
“The first goal is difficult to accept and it obviously helped them a lot with momentum.
“It would be hard to explain my disappointment in German but in English its worse. A bad start, bad in the middle and bad at the end. “We had a few better than average moments but most of the game was not even average. It was clear what would happen tonight, it was an emotional night but we have to show what we are fighting for.”
Jurgen Klopp simply asked his team what went wrong as he does not believes in excuses. He delivered a frank assessment of his side’s performance after Liverpool were beaten 3-1 by Leicester City at the King Power Stadium on Monday night.
He said “It was not good enough in the beginning, not good enough in the middle and not good enough in the end. It was 100 per cent clear what happened here tonight from the Leicester side, back to their roots, the line-up was clear. Okazaki back and all that stuff. It was clear how emotional the game will be because if Leicester doesn’t show emotion tonight, that would have been really strange. In the end, it was not that intense but we were even not ready for this. We tried to be absolutely ready from the first second but obviously we tried not enough or with the wrong tools.
The first goal was like a friendly game, a player down, throw-in, header, one pass – and if you really have to do that little to be free in front of our goalkeeper, that’s not cool. Obviously in this moment we were not ready for the situation. The second goal, how many throw-ins did they have in a similar area? It looked like 20, each of them was dangerous. It was clear in one moment they could score and they did, [with] maybe the most difficult one they scored.”
