In his most difficult interval as Liverpool supervisor, Jurgen Klopp placed on a present of defiance Monday in outlining how he plans to show his facet’s stuttering season round.
Klopp struck a downbeat tone following the 3-1 loss at Leicester on Saturday, conceding his crew wouldn’t be retaining the Premier League after falling 13 factors behind first-place Manchester City.
Liverpool is on a run of solely two wins in 10 matches and has misplaced three straight league video games for the primary time since Klopp arrived in 2015.
It has additionally been a tough time for the German coach personally together with his mom, Elisabeth, dying final month on the age of 81 after contracting COVID-19. He was unable to attend the funeral in his native nation due to journey restrictions.
Liverpool followers hung a banner on the gates outdoors Anfield on Sunday, with the message: “Jurgen Klopp YNWA” — shorthand for the membership’s motto, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
He mentioned he appreciated the gesture however was not in want of any “special support.”
“I don’t need a break,” Klopp mentioned, dismissing hypothesis he was considering quitting Liverpool.
“I can split things, I can switch off, one thing and the other thing, I don’t carry things around,” he added. “Of course we are influenced by things that happen around but nobody has to worry about me or whatever. I might not look (fine) because the weather is not cool, the beard gets more and more grey, I don’t sleep a lot, my eyes look like this, but I am full of energy.”
It doesn’t matter who you might be, or which soccer membership you help. When Jurgen Klopp speaks with this energy, ardour and enthusiasm – significantly after what he has been by means of in current weeks – it’s unattainable to not be impressed pic.twitter.com/HAhXN76nBa
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) February 15, 2021
With Liverpool already out of the 2 home cup competitions, the Champions League is the one trophy the Reds can win this season. They play Leipzig in Budapest on Tuesday within the first leg of their last-16 match.
Addressing Liverpool’s poor kind, Klopp mentioned it was an “interesting challenge.”
“Nobody wrote a book about it, about how you come into a situation like this and how you solve it, but we will sort it,” he mentioned. “Please, everyone, we will sort it. It could be tricky but we will sort it by playing football, sort it by sticking even more together, sort it by fighting with all we have. Sort it by learning more than you can learn in each season.”
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson mentioned Klopp comes into his personal in durations of adversity.
“He is always there for us and tries to protect us the most but as players we take full responsibility,” Henderson mentioned. “There are no question marks over the manager and how he reacts after games. He handles situations like that really well and that is why we want to go out there and put in a performance.”
