Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool boss upset with defeat at West Ham

“Not enough. Not enough in the decisive moments”.

“But I don’t want to talk about what we could have done because we didn’t”. To keep a clean sheet at home to Liverpool is brilliant for the fans and it’s a brilliant start to the New Year. We have to defend better. I am really angry about myself. While two narrow one goal wins have given the Reds some respite after a brief tumultuous period, a shambolic performance against West Ham will surely concern the former Borussia Dortmund boss. As the Reds full-back rolled around in apparent agony the referee waved play on and West Ham did play on. Liverpool faces some set of tough matches in January, beginning with a visit to West ham, and the Liverpool fans have seriously anticipated the inclusion of Sturridge to the team to face West ham.

The annoyance you may have seen him show in front of the television cameras after the final whistle was not an act: those in the away dressing room experienced it on a different level, as they failed to carry out the duties Klopp expected.

“That’s not pressing, that’s something”.

Speaking to BBC London radio Mark Noble described the win over Liverpool as a ‘”fantastic achievement”.

“We have to defend this and we can play football”, he said of the balls that led to West Ham’s goals.

The squad Klopp inherited, despite the amounts overpaid for some of the players, does not compare well at all to any of the other sides with top four pretensions.

But Carroll, who like Antonio netted for the second successive game, played down his joy at getting one over on Liverpool.

If you thought the cheers that followed that goal were enough to take the roof off, the ones that greeted the return of the lively Dimitri Payet as a 64th-minute substitute for Valencia were positively deafening.

FW Christian Benteke, 2 – Simply appalling display from a player who should have been high on confidence after two match-winning goals over Christmas. As it stands it would be best for both the player and the club if they parted company, even though that will nearly certainly mean a huge financial loss for Liverpool.

Liverpool were poor in the first half and created just two chances.

It might have been worse for Liverpool had Mignolet not produced a superb double save to deny first Carroll and then Antonio’s follow-up.

“There was not enough from my team today”.

WEST HAM have done a league double over Liverpool for the first time since 1964.

“There have been no discussions with West Ham until now, but I think they’re going to do it. His performance has been very good up to this moment and they need the player, but we have to wait for something official from them”. “Hopefully we can do well against Stoke”, said the Belgian.

“We have seen players who were not first-choice for a couple of months who are fighting for their place in the team and we have a good team spirit”. You can’t win a game with 90 per cent. “Today, we deserved to lose”, he told BT Sport.

‘The problem was, I saw what we could have reached but we got nothing.