Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admitted he can't remember ever being as frustrated as he was after their Merseyside Derby defeat to Everton and admitted the title race now could be a two horse race
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00After the Merseyside derby, Virgil spoke about looking at yourselves in the mirror
00:05and rediscovering that desire in the type of way,
00:08so I know you spoke about needing to get your own results right,
00:11otherwise whatever Arsenal or City do is irrelevant,
00:13but whether you expect City and Arsenal to drop points between now and the end of the season,
00:18how do you pick yourselves up to go again and make sure those two above you don't have a comfortable ride?
00:23Yeah, it's definitely the drop and it's a challenge as well,
00:27because I can't remember I've ever been as disappointed or frustrated after a game
00:33like I was after the Everton game,
00:35I lost unfortunately a lot of games in my life, but it was special, we were not there.
00:41You see the other two teams playing, Arsenal and City,
00:48I didn't watch it but I know about the games,
00:51playing very positive football, high results, ba-ba-ba,
00:55we are where we are on the table because we are able to play positive football,
00:58in this decisive area we don't play positive football,
01:02I blame myself absolutely for that, I don't know how it happened,
01:07but I'm responsible for the mood the team is in, and this team was not...
01:12I don't say now it's the best place, Goodison Park, for a Liverpool team
01:17to play the most positive football, you have to put a fight out there,
01:21because we lost pretty much all the decisive battles at least,
01:25that was really, really bad, but in general it's now one or two weeks where we are just not...
01:33How is that? We don't play positive football, we have chances,
01:37ba-ba-ba, all these kinds of things, but in the end it always feels
01:41like we are catching up with something, and it's not that how it was.
01:45So now a quick turnaround, the quickest possible turnaround,
01:50and we have to do that, it sounds already great, you have to be positive,
01:55it's not right in that phrase, but I will try my absolute everything
02:01that I can enjoy a little bit of our football again,
02:04because that was obviously not possible in the last game, not possible at all.
02:10And that's it, I cannot sit here and say, I think they still feel us around,
02:17I'm pretty sure Arsenal and City see it now as a two-horse race,
02:20they might have to say something else publicly,
02:23but they don't expect for themselves to lose two games from now on, I don't think so.
02:28I don't expect them to do that, if they do it we would be completely silly
02:33if we would not be around, so I don't think it will happen,
02:37but if it happens then we should be there,
02:40that means we have to win our football games,
02:42starting with West Ham against Napoleon,
02:45I'm not 100 per cent sure, but maybe a similar situation as we are,
02:48because they lost their last game properly, I think.
02:52So they want and have to show a reaction, we want and have to show a reaction,
02:57so let's see who can do that better.