Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp looked completely broken when explaining his team’s collapse against Wolves on Saturday. Just a few months ago, the German was considered untouchable but after this loss, suddenly there are whispers that Jurgen Klopp could be sacked.
Wolves picked up a 3-0 win over Liverpool at Molineux and this loss means Klopp’s have picked up only 29 points from their first 20 games. They are currently 10th on the league table and there’s now a massive chance that Liverpool are going to miss out on Champions League football next campaign.
This was their seventh league loss this season and right now, Jurgen Klopp looks completely clueless about how to get things up and running again. He tried to explain how his team conceded three goals but in the end, he was out of words.
He told the press after the game(h/t NBC Sports): “Conceding early goals is not unfamiliar to us but the way we conceded them today was not acceptable. When you see the whole game, throughout the game in moments we played an outstanding game without scoring and a good away game without scoring, the third goal I don’t count because it was the first time they passed the halfway line in the second half.
“The other two goals, going into a game with all the things we said during the week and before the game then this is the start is horrible.
“You do yourself no favors in these moments, giving easy balls away. We were passive in the two goals, everything we wanted to do was be compact and active but we were compact and passive. I can’t explain it, I think why would you do that? But they did it anyway.
“The leadership [defensively] is missing but this is not my first explanation, I really think in the specific situation we could have and should have done better. We have to do better in these moments by not coming to this situation in the game so not chasing the game.
“We didn’t finish things off properly, we missed the last pass, the intensity we played at times was good but we have put ourselves in a really average position for the two goals.
“We better change it. That’s true, 100%. I have no words for it really, I’m sorry.”
According to Squawka, Klopp getting the sack had odds of 25/1 before the Wolves game but after that loss, these odds have been slashed to 7/1.
The manager has done remarkably well to turn Liverpool into a formidable team over the years but this season, he’s completely lost the plot.
Obviously, the numerous injuries have been a major factor for the dip in form but the fact that there aren’t any top-class backups is massively hurting Liverpool at the moment.
After a seventh defeat, there will obviously be murmurs that Jurgen Klopp is not fit for the job but in reality, there’s no way that the club’s owners will think of sacking him right now. A few poor games won’t be enough to overlook the hard work he’s done for more than a decade.
Even if the Reds don’t qualify for the Champions League next season, Klopp is going to remain firmly in charge but he will have to make sure that he drops his overreliance on some players.
Once all his injured players return that will be a big boost for the manager but until then, most of the damage is likely to be done. Liverpool’s only hope of silverware is the Champions League but they will have to overcome the Real Madrid test in the knockout stages which is going to be an uphill task given how poor they have been this season.
