Jurgen Klopp reflected on his side's loss to Atalanta in the Europa League and scrutinized the way Liverpool played the game.
The boss also believes Atalanta's man-marking was excellent throughout the game, which is why they won.
“We played a bad game, we deserved to lose and we must feel that now,” he said. “But the boys have exactly this night to feel bad about it and then we have to build up again for the Crystal Palace game. That’s how it is.
“Congratulations to Atalanta, really well done. Atalanta cause many teams problems with the way they defend. You need a lot of tactical discipline to do what they did. They played man-marking all over the pitch and that’s the reason they won the game.
“In these moments you just want to be with the ball, man-marking is uncomfortable when you aren’t on top of your game. If you are in a better playing mood than we were tonight then you can cause massive problems but we didn’t.
“They defended us and we didn’t try long enough to play. Then we just suffered from the way they defended. That’s pretty much the explanation (for the loss).”
