The defeat to Brighton at Anfield made note of severe lapses from the Liverpool FC players, admitted Jurgen Klopp in his post-match press conference.
Klopp’s side came out second best to Brighton on Wednesday night and a second successive defeat at home turf could possibly leave the reigning champions as many as ten points behind Manchester City in the race to secure the Premier League crown.
The Merseysiders put out a very uninspiring showing when facing Graham Potter’s men despite coming into the midweek clash on the back of two straight wins in the capital city over the last week.
With his team sitting in the fourth spot in the Premier League ladder, Klopp acknowledged the fact that his players had not delivered worthy performances that was required of them to mount a serious challenge to the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United, both of whom have hit the ground running of late to cause a serious dent to Liverpool FC’s hopes of retaining their title.
‘The gap to City… I am manager of Liverpool and so you ask and I have to say we want to be champions but you need games for it and we need performances for it and we don’t have that,’ said Klopp.
‘We fight for three points, it is not decided who will get the three points on Sunday. We have to play better and we will try.
‘These gaps are not interesting at the moment. They are the result of the results we had already.
‘What we can influence is the next game. Tonight it was not enough. We know that and we have to change that.’
