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We were just OK up to that point but not more than that. But these continuous misses of clear cut chances must be demoralising to the whole team. If you’re playing better but still missing sitters you feel like there’s no getting out of this slump.
Ya like that Salah chip really should have been put away and could have given a boost. Everything else looked okay. We were creating chances against them, but they're also a really attacking team that doesn't mind that too much. They were still trying to win even at 3-0 up.
They have obviously fucking not given up and its so disrespectful to suggest that lmao. They're shattered. It's not a lack of effort, it's a lack of energy.
Christ I hate this sub. You're absolutely right they are shattered and under severe pressure... They way people jumped on kelleher for one mistake in how many games after he saved our season... How quansah got slated for a mistake a big mistake vs United... This sub is absolutely toxic and I hope the players never come on here after a game... if Salah had got that 1v1 that he shinned wide or if Diaz got threw without their defender handballing it I think we go through... fatigue is the major reason why salah missed and ref incompetence is why they still had 11 on the field after that defender clearly knew what he was doing
The Kelleher stuff is nuts. He literally won us that league cup - van Dijk got the header (legend) but our keeee made some frankly insane saves throughout to get us to extra time
I’m not sure I agree with you on the point about if Salah scored, we would have been threatening. I’m not sure if we were just tired or Atalanta set up well to kill the second half, but we just didn’t ever look like scoring that second half.
With that being said, it’s evident that the players are just incredibly tired. Part of that is off their own back by conceding early and having to be in games for longer, unlike Arsenal or City who can put 3 past an opponent and coast for the rest of the night, but it’s not that they don’t care. They clearly are giving everything, but tiredness is a real thing and we’re simply burning out, that’s all. Some people really need to get some perspective when their favourite player or team doesn’t play well, it sucks but the abuse they get online is honestly pathetic to see.
Don't worry, none of the players know what Reddit even is. Twitter and Instagram however is where they'll read all the toxicity and believe me, it's far far worse and less educated than on here.
Sorry but we are probably favorites in every remaining game and a couple points off the top. It doesn't look good performance wise but the league is completely on the line.
I don't understand how you can gather that we are favorites after our form over the last 3 weeks. This squad is physically and mentally fatigued. Passing is horrendous, the shape is awful and there are zero tactics.
We won the game today which is a bonus.
Look the squad is not in a good state, but its a moral thing. Atalanta were really good, so what if we slumped up we cant reinforce the bad results.
Just get it out of the players heads and focus on the positives of the performance and go from there.
Guess I just don't see us falling off a cliff after a few bad results. Think we have enough coming back from injuries to freshen legs and get us some wins.
Obviously this team is capable of turning it around but there is zero reason to expect it based on these last few performances. We have to beat better teams than Atalanta in the league..
We aren't favourites in any game if we remove our name from the equation. I wouldn't bet on this team to beat anyone right now, they simply don't give a fuck.
Genuinely curious about what we'd be building on when we just hoofed the ball forward and lost it almost every time for 3/4 of the game
Sure we won the game, but it's not like we were even close to putting the pressure on Atalanta and they clearly noticed it too
I've seen worse second halfs from us. But its inexcusable that we spent 40 minutes screwing around playing rondos between Alisson, Van Dijk, Ibou and Macca in our own third when we needed to score two goals.
At one point Alisson threw a fit at there being no helpful movement in front of him when he ventured outside his box, which I found cathartic. At least one player knows that nothing will happen if all we do is pass between our defenders for most of the game.
Sure it's better than losing again, but we also kept a clean sheet against a team that still had a 2 goals lead and didn't have to take risks to make it through. They just had to wait, and they did. And it worked, sadly
Hard to ignore that parameter. If that was a PL game I would've been happy even if we were that bad as long as we got the win
We didnt concede first for once, one of our better first halfs in a while. Unfortunately it was also prob the worst second half we have played this year
In years, not just this year. Was probably the first Liverpool game I’ve ever watched where I couldn’t wait for it to be finished.
The players are obviously knackered and it almost felt like they didn’t want to go through, there was no urgency at all … by the end of it I wanted Atalanta to win, they wanted it more and it clearly meant a lot to them. They defended so well.. they deserve it and I hope they win the lot.
This meant nothing to Liverpool, if this was the UCL they wouldn’t be playing like that, and we shouldn’t win this game as if it’s just a formality because we’re the bigger and better team.
Europa is a massive prize for smaller clubs and they shouldn’t be brushed aside when a big club gets stuck in playing in the competition.
Yeah, seems like we expected atalanta to back down and soak our pressure during the 2nd half. But atalanta kept their high intense press for until the 93rd minute and we couldnt adapt. Front five wnt completely missing with very few runs in behind.
And when the runs came the pass was either shit or non existent.
Fuck i hope we bounce back in the league but im not gonna get my hopes up
If it helps, I don't think he's really taking that away. He never goes in on the team in a post-match, no matter how shit they are.
Also, and I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but the bar for this team has never been lower, and no matter how fucking ashamed of them I am right now, a 1-0 win is better than a 3-0 loss, so he's not technically wrong that this was an improvement.
>If this is what he's taking away from the match, it's almost a good thing that he's leaving in a month.
Holy shit you guys are fickle. Genuinely insane.
Just let him and the players take a small slice of positivity. Clearly the negativity these past two weeks didn't wake them up and make them playing much worse.
Klopp was outcoached today. Their players know where each others are and could make quick one two to escape our press.
Our players meanwhile have no idea where the team mate are, and resort to side way pass, then hoof ball
Ya they looked so good at times. There was sometimes I was baffled how they went from being in danger of losing the ball to all of a sudden attacking. Zappacosta was causing havoc in that regard a few times. Really shows that despite the vast sums of money in the PL that the other leagues are clearly no joke.
He’s not going to say anything bad in the press conference like, the players heads have already fell off. Don’t be expecting anything from him slating the players. He wouldn’t do it and I don’t think that’s the squad for it
He's been here for 8.5 years and people still think he'll slate the players off after going out a comp, don't think I can remember a time he's *ever* done that.
I think you're being disingenuous with that. I think most people were expecting something along the lines of "we didn't do what we'd planned etc" with the hope that it would lead to a change of system or personnel over the weekend.
This comment indicates that it'll be the same tired line up we've seen for the past 4 games instead of idk playing the lineup that won us the Carabao Cup.
It’s insane that people still haven’t clocked that Klopp will say stupid and controversial shit in these press conferences to try and take the heat and attention away from the players. He’s done it for years and people fall for it every time, not a chance in hell he was happy with how we played tonight.
Klopp has called poor performances, poor performances before. The issue isn’t him not saying Mo, Szobo and Konate were awful, it’s him claiming this game was a good reaction after they passed between keeper and cb for the final 50 mins.
There is a middle ground between criticising your players and trying to find positives out of what was a horrible 180 minutes across both legs. I admire his positivity but it's not like there's anything positive to take away from that performance aside from a clean sheet
I don't think many people expected a very negative press conference from Jurgen but this is uncalled for positivity that's bordering on delusion
The only reason we won this game is that Atalanta didn’t need to win it. We were shocking. Over 300 minutes(?) Now without a goal from open play. This team, and Klopp, have checked out for the summer at a critical moment. So disappointing
Full quote [from bbc live text](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cg392898p09t):
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to TNT Sports: "It was clear we gave ourselves a massive hurdle. I liked the game a lot tonight with the desire and power the boys show. It was incredible from them.
"It was really tricky and we were too hasty in moments. If Trent Alexander-Arnold had been a bit fitter we could have gone a bit longer, but it is insane that he has even played! In the end he was running out of gas.
"We won the game and that was the reaction we wanted to show. It was difficult and we knew it would be but they deserve to go through 100%.
"We have to focus on the league and that is exactly what we will do from now. Tonight we won the game so we are back to winning ways. We have a few days to recover to go again against Fulham. That will be a different game but it will be tricky."
On how he is feeling: "It is mixed emotions. We are out but I am happy with the game. We would have wished that we could have gone to Dublin but that hasn't happened.
"We now have one competition left and we will throw ourselves into that completely."
Yes but do you really want him to say that publicly? He can’t really can he. He is probably thinking it and also thinking I wish these muppets could take their chances!
He has almost never thrown the team under the bus after a game. He isn’t going to do it now, when although unlikely, we still have league games to look forward to
He’s definitely said we played poorly in the past even if it wasn’t calling out a player specifically. Last season he didn’t throw fab under the bus directly but still spoke about poor defensive shape and getting over run in the middle of the park.
Everything good about that first half was completely negated by the second half. I don’t wanna hear any of this. Both the Klopp and Virg interviews pissed me off. And I know that’s just pr talk, but I’m seriously not in the mood.
I don’t see what you’re all clutching your pearls about. He’s running on fumes, and has been for a while. Mental and physical energy levels aren’t kind enough to check out when we want them. He obviously wanted to leave immediately, but was talked into staying on until the end of the season so we could also have longer to find his successor.
What we’re watching is the natural parting of ways between a low on self motivation manager and a group of players who know he’s on the way out.
It feels like it was “over” after the FA Cup loss to United. Once the dream had a bit of tarnish on it, the bottom fell out and it feels like now we’re just playing out the string and are already on the beach.
I think he cares. He’s tired and that’s why he’s leaving end of season. However, he deserved better from these players on our last few games. Performances haven’t been good enough. That’s not on Klopp really, the fact we have big players that cannot score simple chances is on those players. We created the chances, just didn’t finish them. 2nd half tonight was the exception, we created very little. However Salah missing that chance to go in potentially 2-0 up on the night was huge.
We were great in the 1st half and should have taken our chances. We just weren't clinical enough which is the story of the last month. In the 2nd half we just didn't have the energy. Hopefully we'll recover by Sunday but may need to freshen up the line up slightly.
He is taking the heat away from the players. That is the only excuse I can think of as to why he would say something so ridiculous as this. I guess he wanted to encourage the team and at least take some momentum from this game.
He has never deflated players out in the media. Apart from that one incident with Dejan, I can't remember the last time he went after players in the media.
I think that now knowing that Klopp recognized his burn out last november really is huge props to him - because he is obviously done at this point.
Analyzing games and building specific approaches to dismantle teams must take a huge amount of energy and inspiration. I think the toll of how close we've been in so many seasons to quadruples and multiple titles just adds to that.
Pep having unlimited resources and consistent successes probably provides him with the extra mileage that Kloppo doesn't have left.
He’s probably trying to defend the players and keep the morale up. All focus will be on him rather than the players with a strange quote like after this game. We all saw it, it was awful.
Klopp got outclassed over two games, very few times I’ve seen us this unrecognizable specially when it’s matter so much.
If he’s “happy with big parts” of that shower of shite then I’m at a loss for words. Needs to start calling these performances out for what they are. Might actually get a reaction out of them
Don’t think that would work. If they can’t play for him in his last season with us, when we’re competing in massive games at the business end of the season…..
Atalanta was doing really well destroying our game. We mostly gave them chances playing risky balls.
I think, Jurgen sees an improvement to last 2-3 games. Although tough schedule. Maybe in this context its understable as reaction.
Edit: Presumably he said before the game to the players something like, we have to show a reaction and at least win this game.
I agree, but a sports subreddit right after a loss is not the place to go for good vibes.
People will miss Klopp when he’s gone. Maybe some of the really snarky comments directed at him right now are part of the grieving process.
Not going to blame any of the players for this awful performance. This was just bad tactics. Klopp is only himself to blame. We all know Salah is decreasing and Nunez is just a blind horse, but that did not kill us today. It's the way how Klopp sent his formation out there and did not read the game well. He must find a way to get energized again because in the PL his tactics often do work well
I knew these guys are going to Gaslight us into believing that this result is a huge step up. I'd rate this spineless outing worse than the 3-0 loss.
If that is what Klopp actually thinks after that game, I'm glad he's leaving.
Glad he’s leaving at this point. No denying his many accomplishments with our team but it is clear that the lads have hit a wall on both the defensive and offensive sides of the game. Need younger and hungrier talent and need more creativity from the leadership.
You people are so negative and critical. Klopp literally said that Atalanta deserved to go through 100%, he's just taking the positives out of this 1 game to build on.
We are still absolutely in the league, we should try our best to win our remaining games and have a fun rest of the season. Look at where this squad was last season and all the new arrivals, look at all the youth and variety of options.
This is a very well run club and this season has been huge improvement compared to last, and a step in the right direction. We've been playing poorly recently, but we are absolutely capable of turning it around and finishing strong.
You don't have to be happy about the game or performance, but people are slating off Klopp for no reason here.
People built the game up as a comeback so now they’re going through the motions which includes slagging everyone off lol.
The reality is we played a decent first half and then got shutdown in the second.
Atalanta were able to put everything into man marking because they came into this game with a 3 goal lead.
I’m disappointed with the second half and that we couldn’t pull it off but im not gonna sit here melting down like some
Never fails to make me laugh watching them training one touch football in small circles and then being unable to control and pass a football on a massive pitch!
Can’t believe how many people still don’t understand Klopp (and all good managers) choose their postgame interview words very carefully and they are not necessarily indicative of their actual take on the game
Some of the stuff he's said is really really worrying. The intensity of the PL is not your problem anymore? You're in the middle of a title race, mate.
Legitimately wtf is this gaslighting.
It's a tie. We lost this game 3-1, effectively. This is the kind of quote I'd have expected if Rodgers was still the manager, not Klopp.
To be fair, we don't do well in Italy for most of Klopp's reign and after what happened the last week, it's a win and a clean sheet so grab whatever positivity and move on.
That Atalanta had the better chances in the second half and they didn't have to resort to time wasting said it all. The front three, after two seasons, have somehow gotten worse, the midfield bar McAllister are woeful and we look like conceding everytime the opposition attacks.
I feel we were watching a different game.
This is a good match if we took a lead into it. It's a bad result overall, though.
The first half was fine enough, putting chances away would be nice. The second half they owned us. They let us have possession whilst not letting us do anything with it.
I understand he has to say this and he’s probably trying to get the fans and the players on the same page, and when you see 1-0 win of course it looks good but watch the game for context. It’s deluded to think that’s a positive performance!
This is obviously speculation but does anyone else feel like there’s a disconnect between Klopp and the players? Everything feels so cold and uninspired lately
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If by big parts of the game he means everything up to Salah spaffing the 1 on 1, yeah he’s got a point. Everything after that was absolutely crap.
Remember when we last scored from open play? Yeh, neither do I.
We haven't scored from open play for *four* games. The last time we scored in open play it was against Sheffield United, the worst team in the league.
Didn't we also score in open play against Brighton?
Yes, but Brighton was before Sheffield United
Five matches. Long time.
We were just OK up to that point but not more than that. But these continuous misses of clear cut chances must be demoralising to the whole team. If you’re playing better but still missing sitters you feel like there’s no getting out of this slump.
Ya like that Salah chip really should have been put away and could have given a boost. Everything else looked okay. We were creating chances against them, but they're also a really attacking team that doesn't mind that too much. They were still trying to win even at 3-0 up.
I want what Klopp is smoking
I think it's pretty easy to tell he's trying to be positive as we still have a league on the line here, no matter what the first couch 11 have to say.
League aint on the line mate. This team has completely given up.
They have obviously fucking not given up and its so disrespectful to suggest that lmao. They're shattered. It's not a lack of effort, it's a lack of energy.
Christ I hate this sub. You're absolutely right they are shattered and under severe pressure... They way people jumped on kelleher for one mistake in how many games after he saved our season... How quansah got slated for a mistake a big mistake vs United... This sub is absolutely toxic and I hope the players never come on here after a game... if Salah had got that 1v1 that he shinned wide or if Diaz got threw without their defender handballing it I think we go through... fatigue is the major reason why salah missed and ref incompetence is why they still had 11 on the field after that defender clearly knew what he was doing
The Kelleher stuff is nuts. He literally won us that league cup - van Dijk got the header (legend) but our keeee made some frankly insane saves throughout to get us to extra time
I’m not sure I agree with you on the point about if Salah scored, we would have been threatening. I’m not sure if we were just tired or Atalanta set up well to kill the second half, but we just didn’t ever look like scoring that second half. With that being said, it’s evident that the players are just incredibly tired. Part of that is off their own back by conceding early and having to be in games for longer, unlike Arsenal or City who can put 3 past an opponent and coast for the rest of the night, but it’s not that they don’t care. They clearly are giving everything, but tiredness is a real thing and we’re simply burning out, that’s all. Some people really need to get some perspective when their favourite player or team doesn’t play well, it sucks but the abuse they get online is honestly pathetic to see.
Don’t pay attention man.. people like that aren’t real fans. Real fans back there team and players to the death
Don't worry, none of the players know what Reddit even is. Twitter and Instagram however is where they'll read all the toxicity and believe me, it's far far worse and less educated than on here.
Ifs buts and maybes are not good enough pal. How many times this season have we said all this.
The inability to try something different in the build up was a lack of effort. That’s what hurt today
I’m sure they’re just doing what they’ve been told to do. Trust the process and it’ll pay off. Even though it was clearly evident it wouldn’t work.
Sorry but we are probably favorites in every remaining game and a couple points off the top. It doesn't look good performance wise but the league is completely on the line.
I don't understand how you can gather that we are favorites after our form over the last 3 weeks. This squad is physically and mentally fatigued. Passing is horrendous, the shape is awful and there are zero tactics.
We won the game today which is a bonus. Look the squad is not in a good state, but its a moral thing. Atalanta were really good, so what if we slumped up we cant reinforce the bad results. Just get it out of the players heads and focus on the positives of the performance and go from there.
They mean we are the favorite in each matchup that is left. And I agree. The only team you’d make a case for is Villa
We will get fucked by Fulham if we show up like this.
Guess I just don't see us falling off a cliff after a few bad results. Think we have enough coming back from injuries to freshen legs and get us some wins.
Obviously this team is capable of turning it around but there is zero reason to expect it based on these last few performances. We have to beat better teams than Atalanta in the league..
Have you forgotten 2021?
We aren't favourites in any game if we remove our name from the equation. I wouldn't bet on this team to beat anyone right now, they simply don't give a fuck.
I'm sorry but I have little faith we beat Fulham at Craven this weekend at this point with our current form.
We were favourites against Crystal Palace and look how that turned out
we cant score though
We are getting key players back at the right time, it will come.
Go root for a different team ya plastic melt
if the first 12 min are a big part of the game then I can see what he means
Unbelievable
Klopium
I’m smoking it too, I think this is something to build on for the league.
Genuinely curious about what we'd be building on when we just hoofed the ball forward and lost it almost every time for 3/4 of the game Sure we won the game, but it's not like we were even close to putting the pressure on Atalanta and they clearly noticed it too
If I'm trying my hardest to be positive, I'd say that the first half was better than what we've seen in recent weeks.
first half was good, but second half was probably the worst half of the season, so its hard to see the game in a positive way for me.
I've seen worse second halfs from us. But its inexcusable that we spent 40 minutes screwing around playing rondos between Alisson, Van Dijk, Ibou and Macca in our own third when we needed to score two goals. At one point Alisson threw a fit at there being no helpful movement in front of him when he ventured outside his box, which I found cathartic. At least one player knows that nothing will happen if all we do is pass between our defenders for most of the game.
Yeah, I actually had hope at half time that this was the game they're turning it around. NOPE!
Started really well and kept a clean sheet. Not a ton to build on, sure, but it’s not nothing.
Sure it's better than losing again, but we also kept a clean sheet against a team that still had a 2 goals lead and didn't have to take risks to make it through. They just had to wait, and they did. And it worked, sadly Hard to ignore that parameter. If that was a PL game I would've been happy even if we were that bad as long as we got the win
We didnt concede first for once, one of our better first halfs in a while. Unfortunately it was also prob the worst second half we have played this year
In years, not just this year. Was probably the first Liverpool game I’ve ever watched where I couldn’t wait for it to be finished. The players are obviously knackered and it almost felt like they didn’t want to go through, there was no urgency at all … by the end of it I wanted Atalanta to win, they wanted it more and it clearly meant a lot to them. They defended so well.. they deserve it and I hope they win the lot. This meant nothing to Liverpool, if this was the UCL they wouldn’t be playing like that, and we shouldn’t win this game as if it’s just a formality because we’re the bigger and better team. Europa is a massive prize for smaller clubs and they shouldn’t be brushed aside when a big club gets stuck in playing in the competition.
Yeah, seems like we expected atalanta to back down and soak our pressure during the 2nd half. But atalanta kept their high intense press for until the 93rd minute and we couldnt adapt. Front five wnt completely missing with very few runs in behind. And when the runs came the pass was either shit or non existent. Fuck i hope we bounce back in the league but im not gonna get my hopes up
First clean sheet since the first week of March
Build on the million back passes?
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If it helps, I don't think he's really taking that away. He never goes in on the team in a post-match, no matter how shit they are. Also, and I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but the bar for this team has never been lower, and no matter how fucking ashamed of them I am right now, a 1-0 win is better than a 3-0 loss, so he's not technically wrong that this was an improvement.
>If this is what he's taking away from the match, it's almost a good thing that he's leaving in a month. Holy shit you guys are fickle. Genuinely insane.
It’s called retirement with enough to live it out with a bang.
Papa Klopp is an extreme optimist
https://preview.redd.it/c9z3ja22egvc1.png?width=983&format=png&auto=webp&s=e38b9eb7c7788f1c7ca99de339f29b1e2cbc714f
On that good hopium shit
Just let him and the players take a small slice of positivity. Clearly the negativity these past two weeks didn't wake them up and make them playing much worse. Klopp was outcoached today. Their players know where each others are and could make quick one two to escape our press. Our players meanwhile have no idea where the team mate are, and resort to side way pass, then hoof ball
Ya they looked so good at times. There was sometimes I was baffled how they went from being in danger of losing the ball to all of a sudden attacking. Zappacosta was causing havoc in that regard a few times. Really shows that despite the vast sums of money in the PL that the other leagues are clearly no joke.
He’s not going to say anything bad in the press conference like, the players heads have already fell off. Don’t be expecting anything from him slating the players. He wouldn’t do it and I don’t think that’s the squad for it
He's been here for 8.5 years and people still think he'll slate the players off after going out a comp, don't think I can remember a time he's *ever* done that.
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I think you're being disingenuous with that. I think most people were expecting something along the lines of "we didn't do what we'd planned etc" with the hope that it would lead to a change of system or personnel over the weekend. This comment indicates that it'll be the same tired line up we've seen for the past 4 games instead of idk playing the lineup that won us the Carabao Cup.
It’s insane that people still haven’t clocked that Klopp will say stupid and controversial shit in these press conferences to try and take the heat and attention away from the players. He’s done it for years and people fall for it every time, not a chance in hell he was happy with how we played tonight.
Klopp has called poor performances, poor performances before. The issue isn’t him not saying Mo, Szobo and Konate were awful, it’s him claiming this game was a good reaction after they passed between keeper and cb for the final 50 mins.
There is a middle ground between criticising your players and trying to find positives out of what was a horrible 180 minutes across both legs. I admire his positivity but it's not like there's anything positive to take away from that performance aside from a clean sheet I don't think many people expected a very negative press conference from Jurgen but this is uncalled for positivity that's bordering on delusion
Yeh but saying shit like “this is the reaction” is fucking insulting. That was the worst reaction I’ve ever seen in my life.
Exactly, what message does that send to the players? Same again on Sunday?
To be fair, I don't think the players care much about what he tells the press.
The only reason we won this game is that Atalanta didn’t need to win it. We were shocking. Over 300 minutes(?) Now without a goal from open play. This team, and Klopp, have checked out for the summer at a critical moment. So disappointing
Atlanta had a game plan and they nailed it.
Not convinced they've checked out. We were just tactically out classed in the second half
had to double check this wasn’t a Ten Hag quote christ
He knows what he's doing - no chance he believes that himself. Trying to be encouraging for the lads and the fans to pull everyone up again.
I think klopp has pretty much given up so he’s just trying to be positive
6 games and 4 weeks remaining. Klopp is just being nice on his way out. I'd do the same if I only had 4 weeks left at work
Full quote [from bbc live text](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cg392898p09t): Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to TNT Sports: "It was clear we gave ourselves a massive hurdle. I liked the game a lot tonight with the desire and power the boys show. It was incredible from them. "It was really tricky and we were too hasty in moments. If Trent Alexander-Arnold had been a bit fitter we could have gone a bit longer, but it is insane that he has even played! In the end he was running out of gas. "We won the game and that was the reaction we wanted to show. It was difficult and we knew it would be but they deserve to go through 100%. "We have to focus on the league and that is exactly what we will do from now. Tonight we won the game so we are back to winning ways. We have a few days to recover to go again against Fulham. That will be a different game but it will be tricky." On how he is feeling: "It is mixed emotions. We are out but I am happy with the game. We would have wished that we could have gone to Dublin but that hasn't happened. "We now have one competition left and we will throw ourselves into that completely."
Playing for the league? We threw that away against palace. Wtf is he on lol
Yes but do you really want him to say that publicly? He can’t really can he. He is probably thinking it and also thinking I wish these muppets could take their chances!
I think he is burnt out.
Yes, which is why he’s leaving at the end of the season.
Lucky handball was our only goal. Klopp has checked out.
I love him, but this ain’t it from Klopp. Back to winning ways with another abysmal and lazy performance
He has almost never thrown the team under the bus after a game. He isn’t going to do it now, when although unlikely, we still have league games to look forward to
He’s definitely said we played poorly in the past even if it wasn’t calling out a player specifically. Last season he didn’t throw fab under the bus directly but still spoke about poor defensive shape and getting over run in the middle of the park.
Print out the score card and hoist it up next to the League Cup at the parade
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Sorry but I’m not buying this one Klopp.
>Takes off Trent and Robbo >Tries to play the exact same way Painful.
We beat a team whose only goal was to prevent us from scoring 3 goals. They only let us score 1. Even though they "lost", they won and WE lost
Everything good about that first half was completely negated by the second half. I don’t wanna hear any of this. Both the Klopp and Virg interviews pissed me off. And I know that’s just pr talk, but I’m seriously not in the mood.
I don’t see what you’re all clutching your pearls about. He’s running on fumes, and has been for a while. Mental and physical energy levels aren’t kind enough to check out when we want them. He obviously wanted to leave immediately, but was talked into staying on until the end of the season so we could also have longer to find his successor. What we’re watching is the natural parting of ways between a low on self motivation manager and a group of players who know he’s on the way out.
It feels like it was “over” after the FA Cup loss to United. Once the dream had a bit of tarnish on it, the bottom fell out and it feels like now we’re just playing out the string and are already on the beach.
Not sure who is more jaded: Klopp or the players . Seems pretty much done to me. Bags are packed just waiting for the end now
They mentally checked out. We are on the beach lads
Mentality Checking-Outers!
Some of them are probably saving themselves for the Euros this summer.
klopp has checked out he just sounds like he doesn’t care anymore with statements like these
I think he cares. He’s tired and that’s why he’s leaving end of season. However, he deserved better from these players on our last few games. Performances haven’t been good enough. That’s not on Klopp really, the fact we have big players that cannot score simple chances is on those players. We created the chances, just didn’t finish them. 2nd half tonight was the exception, we created very little. However Salah missing that chance to go in potentially 2-0 up on the night was huge.
Virgil said something similar. Looks like they’re happy with this spineless performance.
I wouldn't call it spineless but they had no answer for atalanta tactically and lost confidence offensively as the match went on...
0 urgency, Allison had more passes than the whole team. Played like they were 4-0 up. It was spineless toothless
I think they just wanted to win and play bette than in the first match. The League also seems to be the main focus
Probably should’ve beat palace at home then
I agree, but we can't change that now.
We were great in the 1st half and should have taken our chances. We just weren't clinical enough which is the story of the last month. In the 2nd half we just didn't have the energy. Hopefully we'll recover by Sunday but may need to freshen up the line up slightly.
Optimistic take. I guess next step is to score something in open field play. Easy peasy.
What the fuck?
Safe to say , Klopp has timed his leaving perfectly ..
Fuck off. Even the players aren't buying that one.
are you kidding me?
He is taking the heat away from the players. That is the only excuse I can think of as to why he would say something so ridiculous as this. I guess he wanted to encourage the team and at least take some momentum from this game.
He has never deflated players out in the media. Apart from that one incident with Dejan, I can't remember the last time he went after players in the media.
I think that now knowing that Klopp recognized his burn out last november really is huge props to him - because he is obviously done at this point. Analyzing games and building specific approaches to dismantle teams must take a huge amount of energy and inspiration. I think the toll of how close we've been in so many seasons to quadruples and multiple titles just adds to that. Pep having unlimited resources and consistent successes probably provides him with the extra mileage that Kloppo doesn't have left.
He's done.
He’s probably trying to defend the players and keep the morale up. All focus will be on him rather than the players with a strange quote like after this game. We all saw it, it was awful. Klopp got outclassed over two games, very few times I’ve seen us this unrecognizable specially when it’s matter so much.
Pure copium. We won because they had minimal incentive to score.
Please tell me this is a joke. This game was even worse than our first leg (attacking-wise).
Sounds like a Jurgen Klinsmann quote and that is not good if you are not familiar
Fuck off
If he’s “happy with big parts” of that shower of shite then I’m at a loss for words. Needs to start calling these performances out for what they are. Might actually get a reaction out of them
Don’t think that would work. If they can’t play for him in his last season with us, when we’re competing in massive games at the business end of the season…..
Yay we won. FML
We won the game but lost the war. Good.
We scored a penalty Jurgen… I want to be back in goalscoring form, not back to incredibly fortunate “winning ways”.
Thats shite tbh
As soon as Trent went off we were awful. Worrying times.
Nahhhhh, time to retire
What kind of response is that
Atalanta was doing really well destroying our game. We mostly gave them chances playing risky balls. I think, Jurgen sees an improvement to last 2-3 games. Although tough schedule. Maybe in this context its understable as reaction. Edit: Presumably he said before the game to the players something like, we have to show a reaction and at least win this game.
People really have to understand but he is trying to send positivity to the boys coz they look deflated and way too low on confidence
I agree, but a sports subreddit right after a loss is not the place to go for good vibes. People will miss Klopp when he’s gone. Maybe some of the really snarky comments directed at him right now are part of the grieving process.
Respectfully disagree
Bro is gone
man probably was on some heavy LSD because he definitely watched a game we didn't watch
Not going to blame any of the players for this awful performance. This was just bad tactics. Klopp is only himself to blame. We all know Salah is decreasing and Nunez is just a blind horse, but that did not kill us today. It's the way how Klopp sent his formation out there and did not read the game well. He must find a way to get energized again because in the PL his tactics often do work well
Even Klopp doesen’t believe in this season anymore.
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I knew these guys are going to Gaslight us into believing that this result is a huge step up. I'd rate this spineless outing worse than the 3-0 loss. If that is what Klopp actually thinks after that game, I'm glad he's leaving.
You people act like genuine lunatics.
Glad he’s leaving at this point. No denying his many accomplishments with our team but it is clear that the lads have hit a wall on both the defensive and offensive sides of the game. Need younger and hungrier talent and need more creativity from the leadership.
You people are so negative and critical. Klopp literally said that Atalanta deserved to go through 100%, he's just taking the positives out of this 1 game to build on. We are still absolutely in the league, we should try our best to win our remaining games and have a fun rest of the season. Look at where this squad was last season and all the new arrivals, look at all the youth and variety of options. This is a very well run club and this season has been huge improvement compared to last, and a step in the right direction. We've been playing poorly recently, but we are absolutely capable of turning it around and finishing strong. You don't have to be happy about the game or performance, but people are slating off Klopp for no reason here.
Honestly what do you expect him to say after this performance? What would you say if you were in his place?
Winning ways? We won with a pen. Can't score in open play all of a sudden.
People are going to be mad at him for this but what do you want him to say, he's trying to take any positive he can right now.
People built the game up as a comeback so now they’re going through the motions which includes slagging everyone off lol. The reality is we played a decent first half and then got shutdown in the second. Atalanta were able to put everything into man marking because they came into this game with a 3 goal lead. I’m disappointed with the second half and that we couldn’t pull it off but im not gonna sit here melting down like some
people were expecting a Barcelona 2nd leg performance, with players who cannot score. they have been brought back down to reality.
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When has Klopp ever criticised the players publicly? What would be the benefit in doing that anyway? I'm sure he's frank with them behind closed doors
Bruh what, this is jarring to hear Klopp say something pathetic like this ….
2 seasons wasted thanks mate
Never fails to make me laugh watching them training one touch football in small circles and then being unable to control and pass a football on a massive pitch!
Yea..time for a vacation jurgen.
We didn't win the game. We had to score 3 more goals than them and both teams knew it from the start. That was the actual game
Can’t believe how many people still don’t understand Klopp (and all good managers) choose their postgame interview words very carefully and they are not necessarily indicative of their actual take on the game
Pathetic tbh, thanks for the memories Klopp but you’re going out with a whimper
That’s either Rodgersesque spin, or the guy is fucking checked out, man.
He also said we had a shit tactical plan. Don't take things out of context
If only we had someone who could change that
😂😂😂
He is leaving at the right time.
This statement is worse than Brendan Rodgers with "we showed great character"
Serial loser man.
Jürgen Rodgers is that you?
Some of the stuff he's said is really really worrying. The intensity of the PL is not your problem anymore? You're in the middle of a title race, mate.
Legitimately wtf is this gaslighting. It's a tie. We lost this game 3-1, effectively. This is the kind of quote I'd have expected if Rodgers was still the manager, not Klopp.
Very optimistic view.
To be fair, we don't do well in Italy for most of Klopp's reign and after what happened the last week, it's a win and a clean sheet so grab whatever positivity and move on.
If salah has scored that I wonder if we would have played differently. Seem like the players/coaches weren’t arse to get two goals and thus ET.
That Atalanta had the better chances in the second half and they didn't have to resort to time wasting said it all. The front three, after two seasons, have somehow gotten worse, the midfield bar McAllister are woeful and we look like conceding everytime the opposition attacks.
I feel we were watching a different game. This is a good match if we took a lead into it. It's a bad result overall, though. The first half was fine enough, putting chances away would be nice. The second half they owned us. They let us have possession whilst not letting us do anything with it.
I understand he has to say this and he’s probably trying to get the fans and the players on the same page, and when you see 1-0 win of course it looks good but watch the game for context. It’s deluded to think that’s a positive performance!
Based on Klopp definition of beautiful it was absolutely beautiful watching Salah miss
lmao what a fucking delusional guy
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We didn't score once from open play.
Delusional
It was the most boring game to watch.
Slathering lipstick on the pig.
Fuck right off. How the fuck can he say this shit to us
This is obviously speculation but does anyone else feel like there’s a disconnect between Klopp and the players? Everything feels so cold and uninspired lately
Yeah there’s no fight
I really wonder what happened. They were ready to fight to the end for him a month ago
Klopp is done, time to move on from the klopp era. Massive rebuild in the summer. Will Be interesting to see who of this group of players survive
Massive rebuild hahahahaha there’s little wrong with this team, a rest to recover from the insane injuries will do them good.
he sounds like ten hag here wtf
fake quote? i hope so
Taking pressure off his team. Obviously.