EPL: We’re under pressure; we must fight through this, says Liverpool boss Klopp

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits they’re “under pressure” after Saturday’s 3-3 draw with Brighton.

Klopp, however, insists they can turn things around.

He said, “‘Concerning’, I am not sure if it is the right word but we can’t ignore the fact. But then for sure, the Ajax game didn’t give us any kind of rhythm because then we left, so that’s clear. That is something you usually get from these kinds of situations, and momentum with the late goal, with the late winner. We could have taken a lot of things into the next game – unfortunately, we didn’t play. Since then that feeling has pretty much gone, the boys played completely different systems, different opponents in different areas on the planet so that’s nothing to do with that anymore.

“How it always is, I know 100 per cent everybody expects for me now, two or three things that I say, everybody feels: ‘OK, if we do that then it is done.’ But how it always is in difficult moments in life and in football, you have to fight through.

“You have to fight through, you have to be ready to work so hard that you step by step get the confidence back, get the momentum back. We had confident moments today obviously, at least Bobby when he scored the second goal you could see a lot of that and we had other moments, good moments. But the passing game was not good today, we passed balls all over the place, which I think that is now only to explain with not being confident in that moment. Not the general situation, just how the game started.

“We are under pressure, we don’t ignore that. It’s not now that we increase it every day but it’s there. We want to do better, we want to have more points, we want to be in a different area in the table – that’s all clear and then you are 2-0 down against a really good opponent. That’s now as well the truth, that they always cause us problems here. We had here games where we were running in between them and they were just playing in between the lines and stuff like this. They do really well and yeah, we have to keep working.”