Saturday’s 3-1 home loss to Liverpool capped a miserable seven days for the Blues, who lost to West Ham United in the league the previous weekend and were knocked out of the League Cup by Stoke City on penalties.
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With Benteke only fit enough to start from the bench, Klopp handed the responsibility to lead the line to Brazilian Roberto Firmino, but the manager was quick to praise the performance from all of his players and believes the result was fully justified.
“I feel for him of course but it’s normal work to change it and they will change it but today we were here for the three points, not here for changing the situation for Chelsea”. “It’s like if you have a problem with your wife, you don’t want to change every day”, Klopp said, as quoted by the Mirror.
Klopp replied when asked if Saturday’s 3-1 win at Stamford Bridge was a sign that a potential title challenge was now on the cards. Liverpool’s Philippe Countinho scored two phenomenal goals, along with one by Christian Benteke, giving the away side a solid victory. “Who doesn’t love Phil Coutinho?” I don’t expect all-day perfection. “If you want to write it, you write it. If you don’t want, you don’t want”. That is what Phil is doing and the team are doing’.
“Sometimes you have to work really, really hard to make football look easy”. That is what he did against Chelsea. “The second half was open and we made our goals at ideal moments for us”. That is his quality of course. “There was a bit of luck, but it was deserved”, he continued, referring to Coutinho’s deflected second goal. The Chelsea manager answered to interviewer Des Kelly, “Nothing to say”, “No” or “Nothing” to eight separate questions that were put to him. Maybe you’ll see the game in a better way. This is the flawless example.
“We started very well and in the second half we had a chance to score a second but we didn’t score and they did and then they win”. “But then we came back”, he added.
OWNER Roman Abramovich was not at the game, but is likely to meet Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho this week after yet another home defeat in the English Premier League. “But we see, match after match, that, as professionals, they are not getting the respect they deserve”.
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“But not always is the sun shining”. “The last 10 minutes, the most important thing of my team is we have the character and the trust”.
