DBasia.news – Champions League defending champion, Liverpool, started the journey this season poorly. The Reds lost 0-2 at San Paolo, Napoli’s headquarters, in the Champions League group F first match. Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, was annoyed by the penalty obtained by Napoli.
Liverpool can compensate for the Napoli game. However, Andy Robertson’s violation of Jose Callejon in the forbidden box destroyed everything.
Dries Martens who was appointed as the executor carried out his duty well. Il Partenopei increasingly away after Fernando Llorente tore Liverpool’s goal net.
Jurgen Klopp expressed, a penalty received by Liverpool has changed the situation. Moreover, the sentence occurred in the 82nd minute.
“When conceding 1-0, it changed the course of the match. We must accept the results,” explained Jurgen Klopp as reported by FourFourTwo.
“We are really self-critical, but this is not a bad match. It was a match that we could win. However, we didn’t because we didn’t score.”
“We want to at least steal one point. We didn’t reach the target because of a penalty.”
“I am pretty sure there is a different view of the situation when a player jumps before contact. That cannot be decided on a penalty,” continued Klopp.
Nevertheless, Klopp did not want to widen the problem. He asked Liverpool players to forget about the negative results and rise in the next match.
“However, we cannot change it anymore. Therefore, now we must continue, that’s all,” explained the manager.
Liverpool will travel to Chelsea’s headquarters in the matchday six of the 2019-2020 Premier League, at Stamford Bridge on Sunday (9/22). Not only the Reds, but Chelsea also fell on Matchday 1 of the Champions League when entertaining Valencia.