Jurgen Klopp says he can’t wait until the transfer window closes – and admits he is stunned by the “obsession” surrounding potential new signings.
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With 80.6% possession in Saturday’s upset defeat and 26 shots at Burnley’s goal, Liverpool outdid Burnley in just about every statistical category there is – except, of course, the one that mattered.
“How can I be happy with this?”
Liverpool continue to operate on the extremes, prompting quiet and not-so-quiet confidence of a title or top four challenge when they win, and prophecies of impending doom and enthused responses to claims someone wants to buy the club when they lose.
“We had absolutely no luck and everybody needs to be more clinical. We have to accept the result and carry on”. We have to say it was not enough today.
“I think it was just a slightly quicker tempo than he is used to but we know he will mature with us and get used to the Premier League”.
“We did a lot of good things [against Burnley], but at the end we made the wrong decisions”. The Championship, I have to say, I like this league.
It’s stuff like that that makes you really love the guy.
And the enquiries have continued following the 4-3 victory at Arsenal and the 2-0 defeat to Burnley at Turf Moor.
“We saw the situations coming around the goals but that doesn’t mean you should still concede the goals”, he said.
“It’s another game, an important game, and we have to show that we can do better than last Saturday”.
“The first half was not good for our self-confidence. We passed the ball, lost the ball at the wrong moments”, he said.
They finished with 81% possession for game! “But on the other side, he has no rhythm in the moment, which you can see”, he said. “That myth came out a few years ago and Leicester proved it was a myth last year”.
“Everyone has seen how they keep the ball and flood the midfield with five and six at times”. Will I spend? I don’t know.
I thought actually after 75 minutes that Burnley would vomit on the pitch, but they didn’t. The second goal, meanwhile, was a sweeping counter attack which saw Burnley’s record signing Steven Defour win the ball and run nearly the entire length of the pitch before slipping Gray in, who after a cutback calmly slotted past Simon Mignolet.
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Klopp’s side 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.
