Watford boss Quique Flores certain of Odion Ighalo January stay

“But if I catch the first one it’s not a goal”.

Hornets Captain Troy Deeney continued his brilliant partnership with Odion Ighalo as he set up the Nigerian for Watford’s second goal before the Nigerian completed his brace with a well timed header five minutes from time and was substituted by Adlene Guedioura afterwards to a rapturous applaud by the home fans. “It is his fault, but then both hands on the ball, that is the goalkeeper safe, he has the ball”.

“We lack a bit of consistency but take that West Brom match [a 2-2 draw] – we were clearly the better side but like so many times before were not able to make use of our chances”.

Asked if it was the worst Liverpool had played during his tenure so far, Klopp said he never wanted his team to drop to this level again. “We don’t feel good today, of course”.

“But when we don’t have the ball they come back with the rest of the players and form a compact block”.

“We are going to push ourselves, like we always do, and push our opponents, but they will want to impress the new manager”. That was one part of what we can do. Now we saw completely the other side. “It’s my job to help them so they can show it much more often than we have”.

“It’s not that bad. It was a good thing that I scored but it was really all about the team’s performance from start to finish”, he told SkySports after the game.

Liverpool looked a soft touch without powerful Belgian striker Christian Benteke, who Klopp dropped to recall Roberto Firmino.

To overcome an error like that you would have to dig deep mentally, unfortunately Bogdan’s woes deepened when Odion Ighalo doubled Watford’s lead not too long afterwards.

“There’s no problem, you just have to react to the maximum and that’s what we have to work on”.

“Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle, but I know how strong this team can be”. He teaches us pressing and counter-pressing football, as was the case at Dortmund.

“But he has definitely changed Liverpool with his style of play”.

Nevertheless, Nicol doesn’t believe that they will qualify for the Champions League next season as they will continue to suffer with inconsistency as Klopp tries to implement his ideas and style with the current squad, which was essentially built by previous manager Brendan Rodgers.

“All I’ve read until now was nil per cent and I haven’t heard about this”.

Quique Sanchez Flores’ men got off to a flying start when fellow player of the week contender Nathan Ake opened the scoring after just two minutes.