Klopp reacts to draw against Chelsea
– Liverpool and Chelsea played 1-1
– Jurgen Klopp called for patience
– The Liverpool manager analyzes Chelsea clash
Jurgen Klopp, the head coach of Liverpool, has called for patience from his players and fans.
The atmosphere at Anfield was extremely electric as Liverpool won an important point thanks to Christian Benteke’s 92nd-minute equaliser which cancelled out Eden Hazard’s first-half opener.
However, Klopp has criticized Anfield and his team: “I love this stadium. I love this atmosphere. [But] everybody lost patience today. The crowd too. It’s difficult when you have the ball and the manager says to be patient and everyone shouts to run.”
Jurgen Klopp continued: “So you see we all don’t trust our quality and we can learn this in the future. Because if you don’t think you need to score in each situation because you know you will have more chances then you could celebrate other situations.”
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Speaking about the game, the coach noted: “First 15 minutes were great. [It was] wonderful football without scoring. I said to my players after the game that this was the most important game of the season because we could learn a lot from it. We showed in the first 15 minutes what we’re capable of. But we did not have enough trust and faith in our own quality. We lost patience. When you lose patience in football it is always difficult. With patience, we lost formation.”
Klopp stressed: “We had a lot of moments around the box, when we shot when we should have passed. You have three players around the ball and one of them shoots, and the ball is blocked and you have no formation to win the ball back. Chelsea showed a lot of their usual quality. It was difficult for us. In the second half we tried to do better.”
Liverpool vs Chelsea
He added: “We didn’t defend really compact but we invested a lot and it makes you tired. It’s like a boxer, you get tired when you hit all the time. Of course they could have scored a second but [Simon] Mignolet did brilliant and Kolo [Toure] and Dejan [Lovren] in one or two situations, they saved our lives in these moments.”
“We still had the opportunity to score and we had two or three good moments, and we used one. It’s not too lucky but we could have lost today, it’s clear. But we can take a lot from this match. We are all together,” the manager concluded.
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