Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp lamented his side’s inconsistency this season, having showcased their strength with a 2-0 win over Serie A leaders Napoli on Tuesday.
The Reds scored twice late from Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez to finish the UEFA Champions League group stage on a high.
The win showed Liverpool’s quality, having knocked off English champions Manchester City recently too, along with some shock losses to Nottingham Forest and Leeds United amid an unusual season for Klopp’s side.
“We don’t doubt the quality, I dont think anybody doubts the quality,” Klopp said. “But that’s part of the problem as well we don’t show consistency.
“That’s why I mentioned the second goal against Leeds as an example for our situation. It’s a situation where you have to defend with all you have but we are chasing the game, even when it’s around our 18-yard box.
“And you can see nobody wants to have a throw-in for Leeds and they can let time run down, and nobody protects the box pretty much because everybody thinks, ‘We have three players out there, we will win the ball’.
“That’s a little bit the situation we are in, that’s why we have to make a proper step back and tonight we did that.”
Klopp added: “Napoli is in the moment a real force, really, and so it could have been extremely difficult for us tonight but the boys played a really good game and that’s why it was not.
“So, again, consistency, stability is what we need to get. Tonight we will take the right conclusions of this game, even when the next one will be a completely different game for different reasons. We will take the good stuff out of this game and then start the next fight against Tottenham.”
Liverpool go to Tottenham on Sunday in the Premier League, where the Reds are currently ninth with 16 points from 12 games.
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