The Reds were at a loss for words after suffering a hard 3-0 defeat at Wolves on Saturday, leaving Klopp ruing a “horrible start” and admitting “it needs to change.”
Klopp’s two alterations to his first eleven, as Joel Matip came in, the other tactical, as Darwin Nunez started, didn’t matter much as, a week on from defeat to Brighton in the FA Cup and three weeks after a 3-0 loss to the same side that the manager described as the “worst game” he had ever been involved in, the Reds were undone again.
With a Matip own-goal followed up by Craig Dawson’s debut effort in the opening 12 minutes, before Ruben Neves’ 71 minute sucker-punch, “Obviously it was a horrible start,” Klopp said, according to BBC Sport.
“Two goals which cannot happen like that. But it happened and we were 2-0 down because of our own fault.
“We should have defended better. We were passive in that period. I cannot explain it. There is no excuse for it.
“You’re 2-0 down, the crowd is there but it opens up and we get some control. Then for about 45 minutes we play a good away game without scoring. That sums it up pretty much.
“Concentration for the first 15 minutes. Again, I cannot explain. But these 15 minutes cannot be allowed.
“It needs to change. That’s the thing. I stand here again and for the first 15 minutes I have no explanation, I’m sorry.
“In the end we lost 3-0 because the goal in the second half was perhaps the first time they crossed the halfway line.
“But it’s right because when you start like this you don’t deserve anything in a Premier League game,” he added.
