Klopp Talk: “No Good Thoughts” Following Derby Defeat

Jürgen Klopp was, to say it mildly, unimpressed with his team’s performance in his last ever Merseyside Derby. The Reds crossed the road to Goodison Park and lost 2-0 to their hometown rivals.

This loss probably also killed Liverpool’s title challenge in a disappointing, wet fart of a game that Everton will probably be selling on DVD next week.

After the game, Klopp gave his review, which was as frank as ever.

“No good thoughts at all,” he said. “Very disappointed, frustrated obviously. I had now obviously a few interviews and I would say you can sum up: it was not good enough. We played the game, or let it happen, the game Everton wanted. They scored two goals from set-pieces.”

When asked about the title race now, he said, “We need a crisis at [Manchester] City and Arsenal, and need to win football games, because if they start now losing all the games and we do what we did tonight, nothing changed. And we are not safe in the Champions League as well so we should just play better football.”

The thought of going from challenging for the title to challenging for fourth place is not a great one. Liverpool has seen their whole season start to slip through their fingers in the last few weeks. Of course, there’s still four games left, and the Premier League is a fickle mistress, so perhaps things will take yet another turn in Liverpool’s favor before the end.