Jurgen Klopp admitted his Liverpool troops have to experience the ache of their chastening loss in opposition to Atalanta – however told them to rapidly lick their wounds.
The Reds face the stark actuality of removal from the Europa League after a shock 3-0 defeat via the Italian club in the quarter-final first leg at Anfield. Liverpool have been second-best in all departments, with former West Ham striker Gianluca Scamacca plundering a double either facet of half-time earlier than Mario Pasalic put the gloss on Atalanta’s deserved triumph.
The Reds now head to Bergamo next week having to turn round a vast deficit. And they’ll be hoping there is no hangover that affects their Premier League title task in advance of Sunday’s clash towards Crystal Palace.
While there have been few positives to take from the reverse, Diogo Jota did come off the bench for his first look in almost two months after an ankle injury. Now the Reds have to prepare for the visit of Palace.
Liverpool supervisor Klopp said: “It simply was a genuinely terrible game, oh my God. So we began well, definitely well, and then did not continue. I assume even before they scored however we simply lost the plot a little bit, like we had been everywhere and nowhere. [The] midfield was once spread like that, right midfielder left side, left midfielder, striker… I did not recognize that, that used to be truely strange. In football phrases it’s tactical discipline. But anyhow we had a large threat I assume from Darwin [Nunez] and then unlucky with Harvey [Elliott].
Then they scored the intention and then we kept taking part in into their hands, to be honest. A virtually accurate example [of] how it ought to have regarded is the purpose we scored due to the fact that is [the] striker wide, full-back underlap in a massive space, arrives, has all the time in the world, passes the ball and Mo [Salah] scores the goal. It was then offside but it really is one thing. We ought to have had these situations greater often.
“[We] didn’t use the man-marking barring that, I would say, a lot. Then Diogo came on, we can’t use him now simply because we think now he is the answer or whatever. He wishes time as well however he got here on and just [had] no terrible trip or anything in the entire recreation for weeks and months, so just happy to play – and you ought to see that changed a lot. We performed a awful game, we deserved to lose and we ought to experience that now. But the boys have precisely this night time to sense awful about it and then we have to construct up once more for the Crystal Palace game, so it really is how it is. You ask me probably about the sport next Thursday but there is Crystal Palace in between. So, congratulations Atalanta, honestly nicely done.”
