'I am not in the mood to raise the white flag': Klopp not ready to give up on title race yet

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'I am not in the mood to raise the white flag': Klopp not ready to give up on title race yet

Jurgen Klopp spoke to the press ahead of Liverpool's clash with West Ham and said he is not ready to give up on the title just yet.

The boss was asked if there would be any more twists in the title run-in coming up.

He replied: "I would not assess it now. I have no clue. I am not in the mood to give up, to wave the white flag, these kind of things. I just think we have to look first after ourselves, just make sure we play better football.

"I said after the game, why should a team who plays like us against Everton, why should we be champions? But the football we played before, a lot of good stuff, surprisingly good stuff.

"In January we looked invincible, undefeatable, with a deflated squad with real problems. But everybody went in the same direction, go for it, we were a real pain for everybody, squeezed out results or played really well. Everything was kind of a mix of a lot of things.

"So, we deserve to be where we are, now we have to use it. I want us to use the situation. I want us to not feel the pressure, for whatever reason it is.

"Yes, the individual performances were not great now; not only individual, that sums up to a not-great team performance in that game and maybe in one of the other games as well. But the boys are incredible footballers.

"I see it as my job to create an atmosphere where they can be the best version of themselves. That's obviously what I have failed. I don't know how, I have had 40 or 50 hours' time to think about it.

"I don't know where it happened but I didn't see anything of what we wanted to be at the Everton game, to be honest. So now we had another few hours and now we try to be much more ourselves again."

AuthorGursher ChabbaSourceLiverpool FC
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