The Reds crashed to their first loss of the 2016-17 Premier League campaign after first-half goals from Sam Vokes, inside just two minutes, and Andre Gray gave the hosts a deserved victory. While I certainly applaud the pundits who made the unconventional prognostications placing the Reds back in UEFA Champions League, I was not one of them.
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“Emre Can was on the bench, he had a back problem, Lucas Leiva is injured and you ask me for a hard midfield player?” he told reporters from the Guardian when they asked if he’d buy a defensive midfielder. “In my opinion we could have avoided this situation five or six times before it came to the situation where Alberto could have done better, but that’s all”.
“If we had found the flawless fit with all the things around – it is not about money only – playing style, defending skills, offensive skills, technical things – I think you would know because we would have made a transfer”.
Klopp’s side were soon confidently going about their work in possession but could not penetrate a deep and dogged Burnley defence. “We didn’t start well in the game”.
“If one game would change my mind, then I would be a real idiot”, he said after the match on Saturday.
He said, per Sky Sports: “If someone plays not too good then we talk about it in the press conference?”
“We do have a number of players in our squad who can play as a left-back but we are not blind”.
The Clarets were up two goals by the 37 minute and held on until the whistle to record their first home win of the season. We have to say it was not enough today.
Klopp said: “I like Danny”.
“It is not allowed that you suffer under your own poor possession because it makes no sense”.
“I told you a lot times that I can not be interested in criticism of other people”. But it’s not a defending problem, it’s an offensive problem.
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“The forward drops in as well and they try to play rotational and pop the ball around and your players have to see through that and realise that they weren’t opening us up and that’s an important factor. But we did. Now we have to accept the result and carry on”. If you tell me past year we could have played at Burnley like this, not ideal of course, I would be really surprised. “It’s not an off day, just an experience that we didn’t want”.
