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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp takes responsibility for Rhian Brewster’s lack of penalty in the Community Shield final against Arsenal: ‘If anyone is to blame, it’s me … I wanted him in the post because he’s a real auctioneer’
- Coach Jurgen Klopp has taken the blame for Rhian Brewster’s missed penalty
- The youngster replaced Gini Wijnaldum in injury time before the penalty shoot-out
- But Brewster hit the crossbar with his kick as Arsenal beat Liverpool 5-4 on penalties
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has taken the blame for Rhian Brewster after he missed his penalty in Liverpool’s loss to Arsenal at the Community Shield.
With one of each en route to stoppage time at Wembley, Brewster replaced Gini Wijnaldum as Klopp felt the youngster was “a true spiker” who would be “confident” in taking a penalty.
But the 22-year-old hit the bar with his shot from point of view when Arsenal won 5-4 in the shooutout to lift the trophy.
Coach Jurgen Klopp has taken the blame for the 22-year-old Rhian Brewster’s missed penalty
Klopp said the experience could help Brewster in the long run and he believes he will come back stronger.
“This will not harm Rhian,” Klopp said. If anyone is to blame, it is me. I wanted him in position because he is a true and confident finisher. Not today. That happens in life and in football.
“We all have to learn and show that we can deal with losses. If I had scored and someone else failed, it’s the same issue. There are more important reasons than that. Losing it like this is possible. I’ve never seen him lose one, but it happens. ”
During the match, Arsenal had a slick fluidity and renewed energy, while Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah lacked such offensive prowess.
The dynamic trio lacked energy in the attacking third and failed to ignite their creative spark.
Klopp told BT Sport: ‘I was sad today. When you play against a formation like this, which almost always happened to us, not only when we are 1-0 down, even when it is 0-0, many teams play like this, so you must be in the last third. really cool.
Klopp replaced Gini Wijnaldum with Brewster in injury time before penalty shoot-out
Klopp said the experience could help Brewster and supported him to come back much stronger.
‘Sometimes you want to force it, create angles, create crosses, go behind, all these kinds of things. The pace for that slowed down a bit.
“We couldn’t create exactly the opportunity we wanted, but we had two and the third with which we scored. Against a team with the quality of Arsenal, some days should be enough.
When you finish it, it is enough. When you don’t finish it, it’s not enough and today it’s not enough. ‘
Despite not reaching his potential, Klopp felt the result was unfair. He stated that Arsenal lacked significant opportunities and that they had many opportunities to close out Mikel Arteta’s team.
“I think they had exactly two shots on goal and a similar situation.
After hitting the crossbar, Arsenal beat Liverpool 5-4 on penalties to win the. Community Shield Final
‘After a long ball diagonally, we left Neco [Williams] alone and Auba could come in to finish it off. The other moment Ali [Alisson] made a save. That was it, more or less, ‘he said.
‘Apart from that, we had to play against a low block with an incredible counter attack threat. So in these games you need the finishing touch.
“In the end we created enough moments, but we should have created more. We had the ball a lot, but we had to play.
“We had some good moments, Sadio had chances, we deserved the draw for sure and then we could have scored more.
‘We didn’t do that and we had to accept it. A penalty shootout can always be a kind of lottery. We were unlucky there and congratulations to Arsenal. We respect the competition. ‘
