We’ll Learn From Defeat - Klopp
Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool’s defeat to Sevilla in the Europa League final is “hard” to take but vowed his side will learn from it.
The German insisted he will take the team to another final and, when he does, his five successive losses will mean nothing.
“There are more important things in life than football. I don’t think God had a plan with me to go to the final and always have bad luck,” he said.
“I’ve had a lot of luck in my life. I sit here as manager of Liverpool. I don’t think I am an unlucky person or life has not been good to me.
“I will carry on and I will be in another final – and you’ll tell me I lost the last five finals. I will try to reach the next final even when I know I can lose it.
“There are bigger problems in life but at this moment it doesn’t feel like it, it is really hard.”
Sevilla, who had won both the 2014 and 2015 trophies, flipped the game on its head in the second half and secured a third successive title after two goals from Coke and one from Kevin Gameiro.
Klopp said Coke’s first goal, just seconds into the second half, had a “big influence” on Liverpool’s game and says his players must learn to react better to conceding.
“At this moment we lost faith in our style of play, we changed from passing quick and simple to complicated, and lost our formation,” he said.
“It was not compact any more. I tried to change it, but you could see that maybe the team was shocked, maybe the crowd was shocked.
“It is not good to concede a goal straight after half-time but you have 44 minutes to strike back and the reaction was the problem. We have to learn to react better in situations like this.
“We are disappointed and frustrated 100 per cent, but tomorrow or later in the week we will see it a little bit more clearly and we will use this experience – that is what we have to do.”
