2024-04-12 13:58:36
Jürgen Klopp will probably have to give up his dream of winning the Europa League as he says goodbye to Liverpool FC. The 0:3 against Bergamo is a bitter setback.
It was clear to Jürgen Klopp that he didn’t like the result. The Liverpool FC coach was fed up – and angry. “It has to feel bad because it was just bad. We can’t sugarcoat it. It doesn’t work without alcohol,” Klopp said in an interview with Sky Sport Austria.
With a 3-0 defeat in the quarter-final first leg against Atalanta from Bergamo, the “Reds” not only almost lost their place in the semi-finals, but also ultimately lost the chance of another farewell title for Klopp, who ended the season after almost nine will say “goodbye” for years.
After the game, Klopp said at the press conference: “We played very badly and deserved to lose.” But you don’t have much time to think about it too much because you’re already playing against Crystal Palace on Sunday, says Jürgen Klopp. The game against table 14th. The Premier League is extremely important in the fight for the title in England. Last weekend’s 2-2 draw against Manchester United was at least a small setback in the three-way title fight with Arsenal and Manchester City.
A performance like against Bergamo? Nobody in Liverpool wants to think about that, because a defeat in the final stretch of the league would hurt enormously – and possibly at least shake up their next title dream.
In any case, Jürgen Klopp had to put up with the question after the Bergamo dismantling as to why he had changed his starting eleven to six positions. Above all, the fact that strikers Mohamed Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai only arrived at half-time raised questions. But Klopp didn’t want to be deterred by that.
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“I would do it exactly the same way again,” he said after the game. “If you want to be successful until the end of the season, you have to make a lot of changes. But I also know that I am responsible for the result.”
Another question hanging over Liverpool is that of the right successor to Klopp as their next coach. With Rúben Amorim, a favorite seemed to have emerged in the last few days. However, the Sporting Lisbon coach has since denied an agreement reported by several media outlets.
“There was no conversation and certainly no agreement,” emphasized the Sporting Lisbon coach. “All of us here are only interested in us becoming champions with Sporting. I am, as always, focused on my club. And because I have nothing else to say about it: There will be no discussions or agreements with the Sporting coach.”