Liverpool never recovered from the second-minute goal by Sam Vokes and, when Andre Gray doubled the hosts’ advantage just before half-time, the visitors’ job was made even more hard as the Clarets put men behind the ball and conceded territory. Klopp said. “When we gave away the first goal they defended for their lives”.
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“The first half was not good for growing self-confidence, we lost a little bit of our timing, patience, all that stuff”.
Liverpool had 80.6 per cent of the possession on Saturday but were unable to translate that dominance into goals, and Wijnaldum, a summer signing from Newcastle, felt the opposition’s style was a factor. It’s not allowed that you suffer under your own ball possession, that makes no sense.
Klopp has time on his hands but if the Reds lose any more games due to poor defending, a lot of questions will be asked about the manager and his transfer policies.
“Usually, in a game like this, you win if you don’t make mistakes at the wrong moment but we did”. I saw shots when the box was full.
Inconsistency and defensive weakness were Liverpool’s biggest problems last season under Juergen Klopp and the same trait has returned early in this campaign.
“I feel very good here. It might have been forced by the result and by the passion of the opponent, but it is how it is”.
Liverpool crashed to an embarrassing 2-0 defeat at Burnley on Saturday, while Manchester City crushed Stoke City 4-1 to extend Pep Guardiola’s ideal start in the Premier League.
“I don’t think there will be many teams who get the ball as much as Liverpool, they get so many bodies in there”.
“We spoke to the players about the realities of this division”.
They equalised through Kevin Mirallas after a flowing move in first-half stoppage time and former England midfielder Barry headed the visitors into a 60th-minute lead with his first goal since January 2014. “That myth came out a few years ago and Leicester proved it was a myth last year”.
“It’s very tough and so frustrating but I’m mentally tough and now I’ve come out the other end positively”.
“I think there is a lot of belief there now and a lot of fight”, he added.
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“We know there is work to do, we are still in the market, want to keep improving but it will do the lads the world of good”.
