For Jurgen Klopp, it was a reflection of the monologue chunnering away inside his most struggling players. But the Liverpool boss could easily have been talking about himself.
"Oh my God, everything is going against me," he quipped while urging his under-performing squad members not to start feeling sorry for themselves after a difficult campaign stalled once again with an FA Cup exit at Brighton and Hove Albion last Sunday.
But Klopp would have been forgiven for thinking exactly the same when news filtered through in the days following the match that Ibrahima Konate had become the latest Reds player to be directed towards the treatment room, a hamstring issue likely to sideline the French defender for up to three weeks.
