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Jürgen Klopp acknowledged his frustration with Liverpool’s performance after they were beaten 1-0 by Southampton at St Mary’s on Monday night.
The Reds suffered a second loss of the Premier League season after Danny Ings hit his former club in the first two minutes.
The visitors pressured their opponents during the second period for a leveler, but they couldn’t break through the Saints’ defense.
Read on for a recap of Klopp’s post-match press conference …
On how frustrating the game was for him …
A big one, to be honest. Very frustrating, just because it’s so unnecessary, but it still happens. We got off to a bad start to the game, we played completely in Southampton’s hands and gave the game away, we have to admit it now, in the first few minutes because after that we weren’t calm enough to create the chances to turn it around. The first part was hugely influenced by the start, but with the break it meant we were able to fix it up a bit. Then we were dominant in the right areas, we had the moments, but then the decision making was not so good. The last pass, we lost the last pass. I heard that now we only had one target shooting; We had a lot of shots to the side that we missed, but even with them we probably didn’t have enough for the moments we had. It’s our fault, my responsibility and that’s it.
On how worrying it is not to have scored two games in a row …
Of course we care about that. These are our problems. As for football, you don’t have many different problems: it’s like if you defend poorly or we don’t attack as well as we can or we don’t believe enough. They are football problems; Yes, that worries us, but football problems are solved with football and we are working on that. We know the situation, we are not stupid and we have to show a reaction, 100 percent.
In giving credit to Southampton for their performance …
Definitely definitely. Look, nothing should be removed, 100 percent. Southampton deserved it, they fought, they ran their socks with everything they had. They missed a lot of players and they did it very, very, very well and that is clear. But what worries me the most is our game and I didn’t like that too much.
On his respect for Ralph Hasenhuttl …
If we had more time, we would probably be friends, but we live far from each other. I respect your work a lot; It was a great, great, great set-up tonight. I don’t really admire his game tonight because I think we should have done a lot better and then it would have been different. We have another chance, we will play Southampton again and we have to show them that we can do better, but between now and then we have a lot of other games and we have to show it. [what we can do] in them.
On whether he gets ‘mad’ at his players in this period or if they have done so well for so long …
Both of them. I know they are great boys, they are super boys, they are a fantastic group of players. But they weren’t good tonight anyway. Yes, when I think they should have done better, I get angry, not much, but I get angry. They know it and it was always like that. We can’t just be like this [pats his head] all the time just because we won something in the past. But we don’t have to make it bigger than it is, but it is big. So we didn’t win the last game, the previous game, the last four games, I don’t know, right? And that’s all our fault, mainly my fault, but the boys also intervened. We have to change that. If you find yourself in a situation like we did tonight against an opponent like Southampton, then you play with fire, let me put it that way. Southampton are too good for that, Premier League teams are too good for that. And we don’t score late goals because we score late goals in our past. You do it because you put the opponent under so much pressure that they can’t take it anymore. I think Southampton was on the brink of that tonight but they were still able to deal with it because we helped. That’s it. Tonight we were not good enough.
