League Cup: Liverpool widens search for domestic success

“Nobody wants the information we got from Burnley, but we got it and now we have to use it and find a way to win”.

Goals from Sam Vokes and Andre Gray ensured that the Reds fell to their first loss of the campaign, while they have now conceded five goals in just two league games.

“It is not a defending problem it is an offensive problem”, said Klopp, testily. “We lose the ball in the wrong moment and bang, they are gone”, he said.

“Are we doing this every time someone’s performance isn’t very good then we talk about it in a press conference?” said Klopp.

“I was really angry around the first goal because it was unnecessary but I was not angry at half-time”. Losing the ball in the build-up makes no sense.

“As I said before, until August 31, anything is possible because anything can happen”, he said.

Coaches from these shores aren’t often credited with such footballing wisdom but Dyche’s troops knew their opponents well and had a clear plan in place in order to overcome them. “It doesn’t look like we are 100 percent fine-tuned”. Not that the manager would confirm whether or not he will invest in further players before the end of the window – defenders or otherwise.

Liverpool reached the League Cup final last season only to be beaten by Manchester City, and Klopp hopes to go one better this time around. “Alberto played, so there should be a reason [for that] and that’s what I’m thinking about, not what other people want me to think about a player”.

“The tweets were posted four years ago when I was a completely different person to the man I am now”.

But the problem proved to be nothing more serious than a muscle impact injury and Klopp has yet to rule him out of the game at Turf Moor.

“But I don’t think it will take a long time”.

“In terms of self-confidence I’m never too high and never too low”.

We all know Liverpool can bring their best in the so-called bigger games, but can they produce it against sides that sit deep and play on the counter-attack?

I thought actually after 75 minutes that Burnley would vomit on the pitch, but they didn’t.

He added: “The fantastic thing about the English is that they just accept you as you are, even me, in my little “speech prison”.

“Our decision making was not good”, the German told the BBC.