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EPL: Bournemouth shock defeat big setback for Liverpool, says Klopp

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits defeat at Bournemouth is a major setback.

The Reds were beaten 1-0 via Phihlip Billing’s Bournemouth winner.

Klopp said, “Being 1-0 down; 45, 50 minutes’ time to sort it. I thought we started OK in the second half, were a bit clearer in our situations, get a penalty, miss the penalty.

“Now it’s of course hypothetical – it looked a little bit for me like if we score there, it doesn’t make the game better from the first half but it would give us a proper boost. But we didn’t score from that and then you could see we were a bit in a rush, didn’t create enough, in counter-attacking moments Bournemouth fought massively, with really big passion, won these balls and then the Bournemouth boys showed really their quality, how they kept the ball.

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“We couldn’t defend them in the first place so we had to track back and defend them there. I can’t remember, maybe one big chance for them or a big finish, the rest we defended but it’s still pretty exhausting and then you have a long way back into their box, and so we lost the game. Very, very, very frustrating, yeah.”

Klopp also said: “Setbacks are setbacks but we are in the situation we are because of the setbacks, that’s how it is. And we are in the situation we are because of the good performances as well; we didn’t have only setbacks but we had too many, that’s clear. Today was a proper one, no doubt about that. Now we have to deal with it and we will deal with it. One of the things we learned this season was to deal with setbacks.

“We have to make sure we recover properly because on Wednesday we have obviously a big game as well. Then it’s the international break, I hope that everybody comes back healthy. Then we have the football week of all football weeks opponent-wise. There’s a lot to go for but today is now not the moment for me to talk about that. This game was a massive knock and how it is with knocks, you have to take them, you have to have a look how big the scars are and then you go from there.”

 

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