Klopp Talk: “We Have to Work for It”

Here, have some classic Kloppisms to make you feel better.

I mean, what do we even say at this point? Liverpool had the
lead in an incredibly well-played first half. Then some stuff
happened (that is in fact as much analysis as that second half
deserves) and West Brom left Anfield with a point and Liverpool are
only three points ahead of Everton
at the top of the table. Oh, and Joel Matip sustained an
injury.

So there’s not a lot for us to say, but at least we can rely on
the ever-present and ever-helpful balm of post-game Kloppisms to
get us through the pain.

“We should have won the game, or we wanted to win the game and
we didn’t, and now we are all ‘depressed’ or whatever,” the boss
said after the match, presumably while all of us were feeling
‘depressed’ or whatever. “The boys are more angry than anything
else because they know that it was not perfect but that’s it and
now, of course, we have to play the next game in three days.”

“We don’t live in dream-land and just win football matches
because we want to win them: we have to work for it and we have to
play for it and we have to finish the situations off and we have to
pass in the right moments,” Klopp added, with a motivational quote
fit for a cross-stitch.

“In the end, we just drew a Premier League game, that can
happen. It can happen against West Brom, they had a new manager and
they played in the first half a system I didn’t see a lot in my
life, a 6-4 or whatever. That’s completely fine, they have
challenges to stay this kind of disciplined for the rest of the
season.”

“We have to be disciplined as well, in a different way,” he
added. “We have to do both, being offensive, active, creative and
defend. That’s what we have to do and we could have done that
better tonight. That’s it.”

That’s it, indeed. Here’s hoping we do a lot better against
Newcastle in three days.