 "'Now we can focus on league': Jurgen Klopp reacts to Liverpool's exit form Europa League")
Liverpool were knocked out of UEFA Europa Lague on Thursday despite winning the second leg of their quarter-finals tie 1-0 at the Stadio di Bergamo against Atalanta. Jurgen Klopp’s side had lost the first leg 3-0 at home which went against them despite Mohamed Salah scoring the only goal of the second leg away from home as Atalanta won 3-1 on aggregate to reach the semi-finals.
Here’s everything Liverpool manager Klopp said after his team’s exit from the Europa League.
On second leg win and Europa League exit
I loved the way we started the game. We didn’t lose the tie tonight, we lost it at home. That is why we have to – and it’s very easy to – congratulate Atalanta because they deserved to go through. When you win a tie against us 3-1, especially in this way, you deserve to go through, absolutely. But I loved our game anyway, especially the start. I loved the commitment and the desire, the power we developed in this game, but it was clear we better score from time to time to interrupt these kind of things otherwise it could be tricky to keep that over 90 minutes. How it always is, a second goal would have helped a little bit, it would have been a decisive thing because you saw Atalanta started very strong, confident, but with the few situations we had I think we gave them some concerns. They realised then as well it would not be easy and that’s the game we gave them, so I am really fine with that.
Disappointed that we did not go through but not frustrated or angry or something like that. Now we can focus on the league and that’s what we will do. We have a few days to recover, we will do that, and then will travel the day after tomorrow to London and will play Fulham, which will be tricky but we will give our absolute all. That’s our competition now. I saw a good reaction from my side, we had not a great week last week obviously. This, if we want, was the start for the rest of the season with a good result and a good performance and that’s how we see it.
On Salah’s form and conerns around it
I am not particularly concerned. That’s what strikers do, that’s what happens to strikers, that’s how it is. We have to go through this, he has to go through that. He is one of the most experienced players we have in the squad. We will go through that but that’s pretty much all. It’s not that Mo didn’t miss chances before in his life, that’s a part of the game. The penalty was super-convincing, a super penalty, then the next chance, that was obviously unlucky but it is not the first time he missed a chance like that. I will not make a big story of it, what you make of it I obviously have no influence on obviously, but no, I am not particularly concerned.
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