Jurgen Klopp says he didn’t recognize his game enthusiasts had been succesful of the performances they produced in a ‘really bad’ 3-0 loss to Atalanta at Anfield in the Europa League quarter-finals.
Klopp did now no longer region his strongest crew on Thursday night, with the likes of Mohamed Salah, Luis Diaz, Andy Robertson and Dominik Szoboszlai on the bench, on the other hand it used to be as soon as nonetheless a very acceptable commencing XI.
However, Anfield was as soon as startled as former West Ham striker Gianluca Scamacca scored twice and Mario Pasalic carried out the shock rout late on.
The tie is no longer over, with a 2d leg to come in Bergamo, on the other hand it would take an fantastic reversal for the Reds to now progress to the semi-finalsKlopp used to be once not sugar-coating the nightmare display, wondering of really one exceptional and admitting he didn’t recognize that his players had been succesful of such a poor outing‘…
Unfortunately there is nothing truely outstanding to say about the game,’ he steered TNT Sports. ‘The begin used to be good. Darwin Nunez had a tremendous second but from that 2nd on it grew to become a clearly horrific activity and there is nothing outstanding to say.
‘I didn’t like our tactical positioning in possession. It was once a terrible recreation from us. Atalanta had a authentic game, scored three needs and deserved to winI will watch this recreation on Monday. I be aware of already that if we do a couple of matters better, we will be better.
Can we win it back? Yes, if we play specific it is possible. Can we win 3-0? I have no idea. But this feels truely terrible and that’s important. That was as soon as a horrific performance and that’s how it is. That’s how we lost. It feels constantly in this 2d that they are through but till we play, they are not
