Liverpool Manager’s excuse for losing to Manchester United in Friendly

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has been one to always have the words for the moment, and he definitely does come up with one after the loss to Manchester United in the pre-season friendly that took place today.

Speaking at the post match press conference, the former Borussia Dortmund boss defended his team, this time with an excuse for the moment.

Klopp who gave his analysis of the 4-0 defeat claims that the game came far too early for them, stating:

“Obviously the game came a little bit too early for us, for some of our boys, so I think we agree that we saw a lot of good things in this game, but in the decisive moments we were not clear enough with finishing our situations off. We gave massive chances away, pretty much. Pretty much no-brainers, but United did well in these moments, they finished the situations off.

“We admit that, but that’s it pretty much. The most important thing now after the game, even when I hate losing, everybody has 30 minutes in their legs now, for some on the third day of training [that’s] really harsh but that’s the life of a professional football player. So now we can work with that and will work with that.”

The German added that they could have scored the equalizer right after United went ahead but for some reason, no equalizer came for the team.

“As I said, we could have scored the equaliser in the last four minutes!” he said,

“But that’s how it is. I know, football is a results game and we do it all for that, but we have to prepare for a full season. We had no chance to prepare for this game, really, so we had to do it like we did it like we did it with three teams, three times 30 minutes and we are now eight days in training with a big group and with all internationals it is three days.

“That’s it and from here we go, so of course I would have loved to have shown the people here a few goals. The chances were there, we didn’t use them, and that’s it.”

Manchester United dispatched their arch rivals in a 4-0 thanks to goals from Jadon Sancho, Fred, Anthony Martial and Facundo Pellistri.