Klopp was named as Liverpool’s manager after the Merseyside outfit’s slow start to the Premier League season under Rodgers.
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Nathan Ake on loan from Chelsea opened scoring for Watford with a third minute goal.
He didn’t continue to impress and looked shaky throughout the rest of the game which the Reds went on to lose 3-0 thanks to a brace from Odion Ighalo.
Ighalo and Troy Deeney’s deadly double act in Watford’s 4-4-2 exacerbated Liverpool’s absent cutting edge as the visitors failed to fire.
“I would say hopefully it is the most disappointing moment in my whole Liverpool FC life, from now”, Klopp said. Replays suggested he might have had two hands on the ball when Ake pounced, but nonetheless it was a poor error.
Bogdan, in for the injured Simon Mignolet, appeared set up to fail in his EPL debut after Liverpool sent a Snapchat photo of him in pre-game warm-up with a “safe hands” caption.
“We tried to come back into the game and I think we gave everything, although I don’t think we played very well”.
“It was a bad start and really not the best reaction, not the best reaction to the goals”.
“I’m surprised teams aren’t clocking on to the way we play, they’re still trying to play two centre-backs against me and Iggy. For us it’s necessary to be defending with all our players”.
While Liverpool are some way short of the finished article, Quique Sanchez Flores’s Watford are enjoying their best season since the golden Graham Taylor era in the 1980s.
It’s four top-flight wins in a row for Watford for the first time since April 1987, and that result keeps them in seventh, just one point behind Tottenham Hostpur and Manchester United, who are in fourth and fifth respectively. “I hold my hands up, but I felt I recovered the ball and he kicked it out of my hands”. For all the gleeful talk of Mignolet missing out and Bogdan finally getting a chance in the top flight, the student was emulating the master right off the hop with his first touch of top flight football for the Reds one no one except Ake will want to remember.
“I know when he gets the ball, he will play it behind the defence”, added Ighalo, which was just what happened.
Ighalo scampered off in pursuit of Martin Skrtel, who ought to have won the footrace, but instead was shouldered out of the equation.
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“If I could explain this do you think we would have done it?” said Klopp.
