If you are a new manager taking over a pressing job, especially in England, your job comes with severe pressure to deliver for obvious reasons and if you also start new campaign with positive results, it becomes even more necessary for you to continue with equal confidence to sustain your impressive show longer than expected. Liverpool is one such side who has been under tremendous pressure last season for taking few immature decisions about signing or releasing players and they also paid the price not only in the last season but in beginning of current one and bosses had to replace the coach. The 48-year-old German Jurgen Klopp then took over the job and impressed with his friendly management skills and result is in front of all of us, Liverpool is on tenth place on the board and is rising its ranking slowly but steadily with each passing day. Reds surprising home loss to Crystal Palace stunned the new boss and gave a kind of shock after avoiding defeat for so many games.
Expectedly, Klopp is showing his surprise over the way his side demonstrated passing the ball technique and eventually conceived a 2-1 Premier League home defeat. First goal of the game was stroked by Yannick Bolasie in 21st minute and Scott Dann netted another one for Selhurst Park side. Although, Philippe Coutinho’s only goal, third for him this year, gave some resistance but it was not enough to secure full points for Anfield side. Reacting over the game and how his team played at home, Klopp said in the post-match news conference, “Today is a bad feeling — it was not necessary to lose this game. We were better team, but for the first 15 minutes we were not on the pitch. we got the goal, we were awake — we started creating chances.
“But after the break, we gave them chances to cause us problems. Then we woke up again, but then couldn’t make a goal. It feels so bad because it was not necessary. This was not enough for us — we can do more. We have to learn from this. After 82 minutes the goal, 12 minutes to go, but I saw many people leaving the stadium. I felt pretty alone at this moment. We decide when it is over. Between 82 and 94 [minutes] you can make eight goals, if you like.
“We are responsible that nobody can leave the stadium a minute before because everything can happen. We have to show and we didn’t. We decide how strong we are, how good we are, how awake we are, how tired we are: nobody else. We played on Thursday but I decide if I am tired: nobody else.”