Jurgen Klopp made a grand admission after Liverpool recorded their joint worst Champions League defeat, saying his team “need to reinvent themselves”.
A 4-1 loss to Napoli, having trailed by five minutes and trailing 3-0 at half-time, continued the awful record of conceding first goals, which is now 10 times in the last 14 games. .
“[It’s] It’s not that hard to explain when you watched the game,” a visibly depressed Klopp told BT Sport after the match.
“Napoli played a very good game and we didn’t. That’s the first explanation.”
The coach admitted that the second and third goals were “served on a plate” and that his team “was never really in the game.”
“[We were] I don’t compact defensively or offensively,” he said. “Until Thiago entered the field, I don’t remember a counter-pressure situation. The answer to this is that we were too open.”
Then came the big admission about the big picture of the team and the club:
“It seems that we have to reinvent ourselves. A lot of things are missing.
“We have to try to find a setup to be much better at almost everything.”
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Literally all the players except Luis Diaz look good, well below their best, Klopp took the opportunity to point out that the problems are not due to personal problems within the team.
“We weren’t working as a team,” he said. “It has nothing to do with personal things or whatever.
“It is my responsibility. I need time to think about it. Some things are really obvious. It’s my job to find out.
Liverpool have two wins from their first seven games of the season in all competitions, a 9-0 thrashing of Bournemouth and a last-gasp win over Newcastle, those being the only two times this season they have led in a game. .
These are truly worrying times.
