Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has stated that the pain of a rare defeat against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday showed reasons why the Reds are such a successful team.
The Merseyside giants have not been beaten in the Premier League all season so far, dropping points only once in a draw against fierce rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford, and lead the top-flight table by a staggering 22 points as they are closing in on a first top-flight title ever since 1990.
However, in order to defend their European crown, Klopp’s men have their work cut out to defend their European crown, though, after going down 1-0 to Atleti at the Wanda Metropolitano in the first leg of their last-16 tie.
The Premier League champions-elect will return to action in the domestic league as they take on West Ham on Monday, yet the disappointment of their loss has been spoken out by Klopp who insists that it was a tough pill to digest.
Ahead of West Ham United’s visit to Anfield, the 52-year-old German manager explained that he wants to get things back on track with winning ways, “[The West Ham game] is to put things right, just not in the [same] competition, Yes, we lost the [Atletico] game, and there was absolutely no positive in it – we lost the game. But it’s important, if there’s any help in that result, that it was a defeat and it felt like a defeat. It felt after the game like a defeat, it felt the next morning like a defeat. There was nothing, ‘Oh, but in the league, we are like this’.
