Emotional Jurgen Klopp awards Premier League title after Liverpool collapse

Jurgen Klopp has admitted that he admitted Liverpool’s title defense was over after the defending champions capitulated to a 3-1 loss at Leicester after falling behind with a soft goal on Saturday.

Liverpool suffered a third consecutive defeat in his hesitant defense of the English Premier League trophy.

“Yeah. I can’t believe it, but yeah,” Klopp said when asked if he had awarded the title.

“To be honest, I don’t think we can close the gap this year. We have to win football games, and a lot of our game today was very good.

“What we have to try to avoid are mistakes and misunderstandings. In two situations today we didn’t do that and this is how they were allowed to score two goals. The results are hugely related to performance: today we were good enough to win the game apart of a couple of mistakes towards the end.

Liverpool took the lead with league-leading Mohamed Salah’s 17th goal, but conceded three goals in seven minutes from 78, when James Maddison’s free kick from the left sidestepped many pairs of outstretched legs and slipped into the corner. .

Klopp called that the turning point in the game. Another came three minutes later, courtesy of another mistake by Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker, who gave City two goals last weekend with careless punts.

“Before the game, we all knew that Ozan [Kabak] He’s a really good player and we know it later too, but he’s not used to all the things we do. Ali [Alisson] He is offensive and likes to get out of his goal.

“When they’re new together, this usually happens, but it happens in the preseason. Unfortunately, we haven’t had that. We don’t care about the title, we’re not stupid.

“We have a tough game on Tuesday and then the derby next week. That’s what we’re thinking about.”