We have seen it time and time again at Liverpool during the Jurgen Klopp era- be world beaters one week, extremely ordinary the next. The Reds can dominate top of the table teams in a given match, then fall to a mid-table side in the very next one. It happened again today as Liverpool blew both a 2-0 and a 3-1 lead to fall at Bournemouth today.
How did this happen? Do they really miss Philippe Coutinho that much? How can a side this talented stumble all over themselves?
It’s not an issue of attitude or character Jurgen Klopp says.
“We have no attitude or character problem,” Klopp told reporters. “No one is born a winner. Not in the first two or three months. You have to learn it. Last year there was a lot of criticism and we managed to change, and tried to be much better. It’s always clear something like this can happen.”
Klopp also refused to point the finger at goalkeeper at Loris Karius, who’s really taking a beating on social media today. Liverpool fans are so angry at Karius that they actually want Simon Mignolet to return.
“The last goal was not easy for a goalkeeper,” Klopp explained.
“It says nothing about him as a goalkeeper. It happens. We go on. We missed chances today. Do we have good strikers? Yes, we do.”
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