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Jurgen Klopp lamented Liverpool’s failures at both ends of the field as the champions fell in a first derby loss in nearly 23 years.
An early goal from Richarlison and a late penalty from Gylfi Sigurdsson consigned Liverpool to a fourth consecutive loss at home, their worst streak in the league since 1923.
Victory, the first in 23 visits to Anfield, saw Everton draw 40 points with their hosts for seventh and are just three behind fourth-placed Chelsea with a game in hand over both clubs.
Klopp regretted more mistakes for handing over the initiative to Everton and giving them an advantage that they were not only able to maintain but added, albeit in contentious fashion.
When asked how much it hurt, he said: “A lot, a lot. But we conceded a completely unnecessary first goal, we must not forget that, and that is a big part of the game.
“You have to defend and you have to score and in a situation we didn’t defend well enough, we made a mistake so they could score and we didn’t use the things that we created. That’s why we have the result. “
16 Conclusions – Liverpool 0-2 Everton
Klopp could not understand the awarding of the penalty after Dominic Calvert-Lewin fell after hitting the back of a sliding Trent Alexander-Arnold or the speed with which referee Chris Kavanagh saw the court monitor when the VAR asked him to look again.
“I really think it is unfair that they ask me how everyone has asked me that question, which means that everyone thought it was not a penalty,” he added.
“I wanted to talk to the referee after my first (post-match) interviews, but they already left. I wanted to ask you what did you see?
“If you are called, you must hesitate, but it only took a second. He left, he saw it from three or four yards and ‘penalty’ ”.
As if losing his first Merseyside derby at home since 1999 wasn’t enough, Klopp lost another central defense option as Jordan Henderson became the fifth to no longer be fit for duty.
“It’s the groin, adductor region. Nothing from the medical department was positive about it. It doesn’t look good, but we have to look at the scan tomorrow, ”said the German.
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