Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool’s defeat
to Sevilla in the Europa League final is “hard” to take but vowed his
side will learn from it.
The German insisted he will take the team to another final and, when he does, his five successive losses will mean nothing.
The Reds 3-1 defeat in Basel, after
taking a half-time lead, was Klopp’s second failed final with his new
club in three months but the Liverpool manager does not want any
sympathy.
“There are more important things in life
than football. I don’t think God had a plan with me to go to the final
and always have bad luck,” he said.
“I’ve had a lot of luck in my life. I
sit here as manager of Liverpool. I don’t think I am an unlucky person
or life has not been good to me.
“I will carry on and I will be in
another final – and you’ll tell me I lost the last five finals. I will
try to reach the next final even when I know I can lose it.
“There are bigger problems in life but at this moment it doesn’t feel like it, it is really hard.”
Sevilla, who had won both the 2014 and
2015 trophies, flipped the game on its head in the second half and
secured a third successive title after two goals from Coke and one from
Kevin Gameiro.
Klopp said Coke’s first goal, just
seconds into the second half, had a “big influence” on Liverpool’s game
and says his players must learn to react better to conceding.
“At this moment we lost faith in our
style of play, we changed from passing quick and simple to complicated,
and lost our formation,” he said.
“It was not compact any more. I tried to
change it, but you could see that maybe the team was shocked, maybe the
crowd was shocked.
“It is not good to concede a goal
straight after half-time but you have 44 minutes to strike back and the
reaction was the problem. We have to learn to react better in situations
like this.
“We are disappointed and frustrated 100
per cent, but tomorrow or later in the week we will see it a little bit
more clearly and we will use this experience – that is what we have to
do.”
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