Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes that they are not playing as a team after they got their Champions League campaign off to the worst possible start with a 4-1 thrashing at the hands of Napoli. They have won just two of their seven games to start the campaign. That margin could have been more had Alisson not saved Victor Osimhen’s penalty in the first half.
“It was really tough to take but I would say not that difficult to explain. Firstly, Napoli played really well and we didn’t. That is the first explanation for the defeat. The two penalties we conceded were both a little unlucky,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said. “The next two goals we concede are handed to them on a plate. That is not cool and we should have defended better in the first place and, of course, in the last moment as well. We were not compact defensively or offensively. With Alisson in goal, you have to be really bad to concede three goals [in the first half]. You could see it on the pitch. We were not working as a team. That is why we lose games.”
“We need to reinvent ourselves. There are a lot of things lacking, not in all games but the funny thing is we have to do it in the middle of the Premier League season and a Champions League campaign. We need a set-up to be better in pretty much everything,” he added. “We have to play in three days against Wolves. If Wolves saw that game tonight they would not stop laughing and would say it is the perfect moment. The difference is they [Chelsea’s owners] are different kinds of owners. Our owners are rather calm and expect me to sort the situation and are not thinking that someone else should sort it.”
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