Jurgen Klopp Laments LFC's Marking, Poor Finishing In Loss To Man United

Jurgen Klopp felt a lack of finishing touch prevented Liverpool from taking advantage of its efforts, as his side suffered a 1-0 defeat against Manchester United on Sunday at Anfield.

The Reds turned in another energetic home display following on from the six-goal thriller with Arsenal in midweek, but on this occasion were not as clinical in front of goal.

That allowed United to stay firmly in the game and Louis van Gaal’s team snatched all three points when Wayne Rooney smashed home from Marouane Fellaini’s header onto the crossbar in the 78th minute.

“It’s a derby and in a derby you only have one job to do — you have to win it because that’s the only possibility to be satisfied after the game,” Klopp said at his postgame press conference. “I think if Manchester United were to talk about their performance, they’d say it was not that good but they won so they are really happy.

“We played better but feel really frustrated because of the result. Our performance and a lot of things we did today were really good. Creating chances was good, but the finishing was not good otherwise we would have scored a goal.

“The set-play was unlucky because we changed two positions for defending set-plays a few moments before. We didn’t avoid the cross, lose Fellaini, bar, lose Rooney — goal.

“Three mistakes around the goal, which is obviously too much against a team with the quality of Manchester United. Today there was not enough time to come back in the game.

“At this moment it is frustrating, how it should be, but we have to carry on and that’s what we’ll do.”