Saturday's draw with Aston Villa was very much the final nail in the coffin in terms of our hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League. It would take an almighty capitulation from Manchester United to lose their next two Premier League games. In truth, our resurgence came too little too late.
And while the vast majority, Jurgen Klopp included, will be happy to have secured Europa League qualification, I don't understand Liverpool fans who would have rather we had not qualified for the competition and missed out altogether. A team of our stature has to be competing in Europe no matter what competition it is.
Look, it is what it is. It's not ideal, but it's what we deserve. It's what we deserve because it happened over the course of 38 Premier League games.
