Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp gave a damning evaluation of his staff’s heavy 4-1 defeat to Napoli within the Champions League on Wednesday evening, admitting the Reds need to ‘reinvent’ themselves and enhance in ‘pretty much everything’.
It was an extremely lacklustre efficiency from Liverpool as a staff.
Joe Gomez was so poor within the first half that he was withdrawn on the interval, whereas Trent Alexander-Arnold barely appeared . Fabinho and Virgil van Dijk have been additionally unusually poor, whereas Klopp even misplaced persistence with Mohamed Salah an hour into the competition.
“It looks like we need to reinvent ourselves. There’s a lot of things lacking. We have to try to find a set up to be much better in pretty much everything,” Klopp conceded in post-match media duties.
“Not that difficult to explain when you saw the game. Napoli played a really good game and we didn’t. That’s the first explanation. Not compact defensively or offensively. Until Thiago entered the pitch I can’t remember one counter-pressing situation. We were just too wide.”
Looking forward to the weekend, Klopp additionally mentioned, “In three days, we play Wolves. When they saw the game, they cannot stop laughing probably. They were probably thinking that’s the perfect moment [to play Liverpool]. I would say it’s the perfect moment.”
After a combined bag of leads to pre-season, the defeat to Napoli signifies that Liverpool have failed to win in 5 of their eight video games up to now in 2022/23 throughout all competitions – together with victory within the Community Shield in opposition to Manchester City on the finish of July.
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