While Liverpool pressed forward in search of the victor in the second half, it was Palace who stole all three points when Simon Mignolet parried a header into Scott Dann’s path and he netted with eight minutes to go.
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“Eighty-two minutes – game over”, said the German, who after his first home game against Southampton last month said he saw the team accepting they could not change the outcome after the visitors’ 84th-minute equaliser.
“I feel bad because it was absolutely not necessary to lose”.
He declared that his squad must also learn that they decide “how strong”, “how awake” and “how tired” they are as opposed to anybody else.
This sees Klopp’s unbeaten start come to an end and it only gets more hard from here, facing Manchester City at the Etihad when they return from the global break, while Palace return to Selhurst Park with a game against Sunderland.
“We decide when it is over”. A minute before the final whistle, anything can happen and that is what we have to show the fans.
And he’s desperate for Klopp to get the Reds back to the top so they can take the number of league titles crown back off United. “We have to learn from this”.
“As I said, I thought the team did well today and we created chances, it’s just frustrating not getting the goals”.
“You must be sick of us”, the travelling Crystal Palace fans sang, and Liverpool could only concur. Then we woke up again, but then couldn’t make a goal. “Everything is OK but we can do better”.
Liverpool’s disappointing outing was made worse by an injury that forced Mamadou Sakho off before half-time, the in-form defender landing awkwardly on his right knee after an aerial challenge. You could see he was going to win that ball.
“Look, I say what I think, please don’t make it bigger than it is”.
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“I said to the players afterwards that the problem with this team is it doesn’t trust how good it can be”, he said.
