Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists he was happy with their attitude in defeat to Nottingham Forest.
Klopp refused to blame his players for failing to convert two good chances from free-kicks.
He said, “I think two incredible saves. I think the others were the better chances when we just missed the goal. I think Virgil in the first half thought he was offside, which he wasn’t. There is no real reason for it, it is just in that moment – these boys, how often did Bobby Firmino score from these moments? How often did Virgil van Dijk put these balls in the back of the net? There is no real explanation for it.
“It is just intense – six days, three games and [a] limited squad, you cannot exactly do a massive change in the centre of the park. With all, there was a bit of uncertainty and I understand that, but I didn’t see that with the boys, they really wanted it. I really thought we made a real fight of it and that’s the thing we had to do today. We cannot come here and just expect to create 20 chances.
“The way they defended, I don’t think it’s possible. We had seven, eight, nine [chances], mostly from set-pieces, but the biggest chance in the second half was probably Trent’s header, which was open play, when we were again completely free. It is not that they defended world-class and we couldn’t get through, there were our moments but we didn’t use them. As I said, [there is] just us to blame for [it].”
