Jürgen Klopp has expressed disappointment at Liverpool’s elimination in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Although the starting position was already not good, the German manager hoped for more. However, visiting Real Madrid, The Reds had no chance.
Klopp mourns after third blow in a row against Real Madrid
“A 5-2 deficit is obviously not a good place to start if you want to keep going,” Klopp added. However, he had hidden hopes for his team in Madrid. To BT Sport, he said, “We needed a great performance. Never could we demonstrate that. The best chances still belonged to Real Madrid. We were fortunate that Alisson Becker’s outstanding saves kept us in the game.”
Klopp eventually had to admit that Real Madrid was superior, something that worried him in the championship game from the previous season. “The best team will continue, I must say,” he continued. “Not because we didn’t want to, but because we just couldn’t. You need the appropriate times.”
“We could have ignited this game if we had scored in the first half,” mused Klopp. Although his team still had a couple opportunities, that did not work. ” They were just better,” the manager continues. “Having three halves. Afterward, you don’t go on. We would not have advanced if we had drawn at home and played in this manner today. Then we took off as well.”
Klopp said, “I had planned for a fantastic evening. Nobody will question our absence. That not only confirms what has long been obvious but also supports the case for it. Real was in control of the trainer once more.”
Throughout his six seasons at Anfield, Klopp only once won the Champions League. The other five times, it always went against a Madrid-based team. Four times, including the previous three years, Real Madrid came out on top. Atlético Madrid was too dominant in 2020.
“Bellingham would have known exactly what to do if he had watched Wednesday night.”
Once Liverpool was ultimately eliminated by Real Madrid in the Champions League, Rio Ferdinand attacked the Reds.
For instance, the former Manchester United defender believed that Karim Benzema’s lone goal at the Bernabéu was the result of everything going wrong. At BT Sport, Ferdinand said that “Trent Alexander-Arnold must think defensively in those situation. I will at least allow myself to slide back to cover my defenders because my two centre backs are in problems and a ball might come through here at some time. At this point in the game, that should be the only thing on your mind.”
“You speak with Vinicius about a highly skilled assailant who you must never lose sight of,” he continues. “Why one of those defenders doesn’t immediately commit to covering him so the other can do the same and move in front of him is beyond me.”
Ferdinand believes Liverpool can prepare the ground for Jude Bellingham’s potential arrival. “Stevie Gerrard and you (Michael Owen and Peter Crouch) will have swum over the English Channel to grab him,” he said. “If Liverpool make it to Bellingham. If he had known that, I believe he would have said, If Real Madrid and Liverpool are interested in me, there’s only one place to go!”
