Despite the extremely loud surroundings, Jurgen Klopp was naturally in a bad mood as he tried to digest Liverpool’s Europa League defeat.
These are the manager’s five main takeaways from the news conference following the game.
“Not good enough”, and gaining a point wouldn’t have altered that
Klopp did not try to sugarcoat Liverpool’s performance. Toulouse, who are one spot above the Ligue 1 relegation zone, gave the Reds very little chance to score.
The manager claimed that although Jarell Quansah’s goal standing “would have felt better in the table,” it “wouldn’t have made the game better” and that the defence “was just not good enough.”
What then went wrong?
Klopp has some preliminary ideas about Liverpool’s shortcomings. He made the following observation: “They won almost all of the important challenges and battles, so it’s well deserved to lose.”
“There were far too many instances where we ought to have won the ball but failed to do so.
Additionally, we easily gave the ball away at least twice; one of those times was a goal, and the other, I’m not sure if it was a goal that was disallowed.
“Third goal on counterattack; last line too deep”
Why Klopp isn’t worried about his team sharpness
Klopp stated that he is “not concerned” about his team despite the draw against Luxembourg and the defeat in France.
The manager did, however, continue, saying, “My main concern tonight is that I would have loved for us to play better together. I’m actually a bit more concerned about that.” More violent, like in a football sense.
We were intense in the end, so don’t worry. The issue is in the fact that in a football match, decisive actions must be taken at the appropriate time. As a result, we allow goals to be conceded.
The choice to play handball was “interesting.”
To put it one way, that is. After the goal was late and disallowed, the manager responded, stating, “I saw the video back and for me, it’s not a handball, but how can I decide that?”
“We didn’t score the goal till quite some time ago. Honestly, my first thought was, “Hey, where’s the free-kick?”
“That’s interesting.”
Lastly, a word on the setting
Although the Stadium de Toulouse was lively on Thursday night, it was obvious that the location of the press conference had not been given enough consideration.
The German inquired, “Who had the idea to do the press conference here?,” as he could hardly hear Klopp and the reporters converse.
“Wow, that would be a really fascinating question.”
This was due to the fact that UEFA’s organisation witnessed the press conference happening in the tent across the street.
Consequently, in order for the press conference to be nearly unintelligible to those present, Klopp and the media had to battle their way through throngs of people to get there.
