Jurgen Klopp’s press conference response: Arsenal beat Liverpool 3-1.
Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool lost 3-1 to Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon. United suffered their second defeat of the season at the Emirates Stadium and the manager admitted his side would have few complaints about the result.
Bukayo Saka gave the Gunners an early lead. However, an own goal by Gabriel Magalhaes kept the team level at the break. Liverpool improved after the break but fell behind again when Gabriel Martinelli took advantage of defensive confusion to score Arsenal’s second goal.Ibrahima Konate was sent off for a second yellow card near the end of the game, while Leandro Trossar picked up the hosts’ third yellow card in added time. Read Klopp’s review of the post-match press conference…About Liverpool’s match and result…It wasn’t our day to begin with, but we made it our day.
The second half started very well. Again, this is just an argument, an argument, an impulse, whatever. It is clear that Arsenal started the first half well. We didn’t play enough football and we had to learn a bit about each other, like the right triangle. [Let’s just say it was hard to find. The pitch was really open for us early on when Macca [Alexis McAllister] and Curtis [Jones] were able to get the ball, turn and get out of that situation. We could have found Trent [Alexander-Arnold] there once or twice more.
I would say it may have caused them more problems.Actually, we were in the second half and now we understand how the game played out. We gained momentum after the first-half equalizer but conceded a second goal. It was a very strange goal. Now I’ve spoken to everyone involved in the dressing room and it’s just bad luck. Can you hit the ball yourself? Yes, but it flies strangely. Can we expect Martinelli to hit form? Yes, but I didn’t and suddenly the ball bounced and he scored an easy goal. It doesn’t happen very often and it doesn’t happen very often, but it has happened before and it could happen again. Obviously, that made the job a bit more difficult.
I also went through changes at that time. Trent, he shouldn’t have played 90, we should have gotten rid of him earlier. [We brought in] Darwin [Nunas] and Harvey [Elliott] and others. Everything could have worked, but 2-1 was definitely not good. The momentum shifted again and the pitch was there. Most of us have had another open game, got a red card and that makes it hard to come back. Arsenal deserved the three points, there is no doubt. They scored 3 goals and we had 1 shot on target. This is one of the most revealing statistics. We could have had more, we could have had more, but because of the history of the game, that didn’t happen.Did fatigue affect Liverpool’s performance? I 100% understand where you are coming from.
You have to stand in line. Will I have the same settings again? Yes. That’s the only way I can rate it. After seeing the match, you might not. If I wasn’t watching the game, I would have done the same. Dom [Szoboslay] couldn’t play and was actually injured, so we had to make some changes as well. This is all normal. That’s not the problem. We can play much better football with these guys. It’s the only thing we have. We want and need better football and we will do it. Today things got weird again. Yes, it started well, but that’s what you expect. Arsenal’s home game, we beat them in the FA Cup a few weeks ago.
In fact, it was a similar first half in the FA Cup. They had more chances in that game than we had today, but we didn’t give up. . And that’s definitely a big difference. Could we have defended better? Yes, absolutely 100%. But that’s true and the way they played they probably deserved the goal. But we stayed in the game and 1-0 is not the result. You should go with white in mind. flag. We were rewarded for the first goal, we forced a goal, but like I said, the story of the second half is that if we don’t score, you never know what the result will be. Our two main weapons are the misconception that we are human. Sometimes we forget that they are human too, which makes the things they normally do even more special. To this day the boys are not happy. We are not 100% happy either. But now you don’t have to play anymore. If you play away at Arsenal, you can play great here and lose. I would like to see it, but it is possible. So we’ll accept it, deal with it, and move on from here.
