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On the same day that Tottenham smashed Manchester United at Old Trafford, 6-1, the Premier League champion experienced a historic humiliation. Aston Villa defeated Liverpool, 7-2, and gave Klopp’s side the toughest defeat in Premier League history.
At halftime, Aston Villa was already leading 4-1, thanks to Watkins’ hat-trick and McGinn’s success, while for the “cormorants” Salah scored. Salah himself scored once more for Liverpoolbut the hosts also made it through Barkley and Grealish, twice.
Jurgen Klopp, facing the toughest failure of his coaching career
The defeat at Villa Park also meant the toughest failure in Jurgen Klopp’s coaching career. The 0-5 with Manchester City and the 1-6 with Werder Bremen, in 2006, when he was coaching Mainz, were the German coach’s biggest failures.
At the end of the game, Klopp had a hard time finding the words. He congratulated his opponents, but was visibly disturbed by what happened on the field.
“I’m not sure I can explain what happened, but I can tell what I saw. It was a game in which Aston Villa played very well and took advantage of all our mistakes. We made big mistakes on defense, but in the last third we did quite well. We don’t score much, but we create chances.
We tried to change the system at halftime, but it’s difficult to come back from 4-1. We did all the things that should not be done in a football match, but ‘with the hat’ for Aston Villa because they forced us to play like that“Klopp said at the end of the Skysports game.
Klopp, butt of jokes on social media after Aston Villa 7-2 Liverpool
The first ironies were not long in coming to Liverpool after the historic defeat in the match with Aston Villa. The butt of jokes on social media was the coach himself Jurgen Klopp.
The last time the Premier League champion scored seven goals in a league game was in 1953, when Arsenal were brought down by Sunderland. Furthermore, Liverpool’s last drastic defeat was recorded in 1963, against Tottenham, 7-2.
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