Before reliving Liverpool’s latest torture at the hands of Real Madrid in several post-match interviews, Jürgen Klopp delivered a telling instruction to an angry home dressing room. The reaction is likely to have repercussions beyond a season of alarming regression.
“I told the boys that a defeat is a defeat if you don’t learn from it,” the Liverpool manager said. “The start was outstanding, us in a nutshell, and that’s what we have to keep doing. If we allow this one game to be really influential we are really silly; 5-2 can be damaging but I have to make sure it is not.”
