Klopp said fatigue played a part in the defeat, after Liverpool played in the Europa League at Rubin Kazan on Thursday and arrived back in England at 3:30am local time (0330 GMT) on Friday.
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Dann fully deserved his moment of glory and the centre-half was a rock for Crystal Palace on the day, as he stood up to the physical threat of Christian Benteke.
“Today is a bad feeling”. Sakho got treated on the pitch and tried to run off the problem but two minutes later, he was replaced by Dejan Lovren as the French defender could not continue the game.
Yannick Bolasie put the visitors ahead after 21 minutes, when he struck the ball home inside a crowded penalty area after Liverpool failed to clear their lines.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is waiting to see the results of a scan on the knee injury Mamadou Sakho suffered against Crystal Palace. Klopp, fearing the worst, said that he’d rather lose the match 4-1 than lose him for a considerable amount of time.
The only thing which would have made victory sweeter for match-winner Scott Dann would have been if the former Liverpool season-ticket holder had netted in front of his beloved Kop.
“We have to feel this and keep this and we will know why we don’t want this anymore”. “We played alright and we created chances to get the goals, but it just didn’t come”, he told the club’s official website.
“Our ambition was rewarded with that late goal”. And Klopp admitted that he was let down by the early departure of the fans. “I felt pretty alone at this moment”.
“Once again – I decide if I am exhausted, nobody else”.
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“Between 82 and 94 [there were four minutes of added time] you can make eight goals, if you want but you have to work for it”. Klopp was extremely agitated following Liverpool’s performance, but insisted that he would take a loss if that meant Sakho coming back into the team after shaking off the injury. This was not enough for us – we can do more.
