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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp admitted his team made “serious mistakes” in the 7-2 2-1 loss to Aston Villa in the English Premier League on Sunday. praising the performance of the winning team at the same time. .
Klopp said: “We had a poor performance on many levels, everyone made serious mistakes in goals. The first goal was a fatal mistake by Adrian (the goalkeeper), but the reaction to the goal was a major mistake,” as reported by the Liverpool.
Klopp added: “How do we react? When you attack yourself, you take risks and this is normal, but you also have to secure the defense, and that is what we did not do tonight. We had dangerous chances, we played good football, we reached their penalty area, and at times we cannot defend in “The penalty area, which is very rare. Every ball we lose, wherever it is, has been a direct and dangerous counterattack, a real problem. “
“They were really faster than us mentally and that’s it. In the challenges they were more decisive, all of that caused us problems,” Klopp said of Aston Villa.
Klopp said he hoped to make up the difference after losing in the first half by 4 goals. He said: “I thought it was possible that even you, when you were watching the game, thought that we could go back to the scoreboard after scoring a goal.”
And he added: “That is what we also thought in the first half, if we could stop making mistakes and be able to improve the good things, score and come back in the result of the match. But that was not possible tonight because we continue to make mistakes. and then the goals came reflected from the feet of the defenders “.
“Unfortunately we were not lucky, we did not close the way to shots, so the ball went wrong. We received these goals, which is a strange result, but we have to accept it. The only good news is that no one was injured after the game.”
Klopp refused to hold goalkeeper Adrian responsible for the loss, saying: “Our goalkeeper was not the problem, just for the first goal. The reaction to that first goal was not his problem, that was our problem. We have to do better, and we can do better. ” Best”.
Klopp said: “Aston Villa’s will was definitely stronger than us.” And he said: “This is something I saw and I don’t like it very much, but now the boys go to their national teams and when they come back, we hope they are all in good health, then we have two days to prepare for the Everton game and after that. we have the opportunity to do a better job. “
In response to a journalist’s question about adopting a consistent method in his responses to the media after the game, Klopp said: “There is nothing I can say tonight that helps with this result. What should I be in now? Completely angry or something? I think it’s a bad day. ” I just like to think so, but I can’t prove it tonight. “
And he added: “If people want to hear that, I can repeat it: it is a defeat and there will only be one result. The evidence of that will be in the next two weeks and months and not because I say that tonight. A match like that of tonight it shouldn’t happen 100%. “
He went on to say, “It’s only important to me how we respond to that outcome. The only problem is that we can’t respond tomorrow, and we have to show the reaction after two weeks. This is the situation, and as I said, children are the most critical of themselves. Now none of them will sit there. ” They point fingers and blame each other for the causes of defeat. These guys are their biggest self-critics and they know tonight that everyone who participated today contributed to this result. We have to deal with it and we will solve it. It’s not pretty, but this is the life and nature of football and that’s it. “
