Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp admitted that nearly everything went wrong for his team in yesterday’s 2-0 loss at St James Park to struggling Newcastle United.
Klopp said: “What went wrong? Nearly everything, I would say. The start, the middle and the end. I don’t know.
“This was obviously not a really good football game.”
When asked if perhaps now was the time to take a reality check following the Reds recent run of good results the German said: “I have no problems with reality, so I don’t know why it should be a check.
“We’ve lost. We played our first three games and drew, then we lost to Crystal Palace and then it’s always boom, boom.
“On this side of the table [where he sits at press conferences], it’s important to be in the middle – not going nuts when you win and going crazy when you lose.
“It’s not a reality check, it’s only our worst game. A bad game.
“I don’t like it, but we have to go on.”
When asked if this now meant that Liverpool was out of the title race Klopp replied: “I didn’t hear anybody on this side of the table talking about it.
“I have no problem with anything you might talk about, but please don’t ask me now about this – I didn’t say before we were title contenders, so why I should say now that we’re not? So I’m sorry.
“We played this game and I’m trying to understand why. We’ve got to try and understand why, but I won’t answer that question, because it’s not mine.”
On the disallowed Moreno goal, he said: “We made our goal but because we weren’t good enough today the linesman thought, ‘don’t make world-class goals if you play this s**t.'”
