Andy Robertson rues about Liverpool’s latest defeat

Andy Robertson revealed that things had gone from bad to worse for Liverpool since the turn of the year with their FA Cup beat at Brighton on Sunday the latest mishap. The captain told Liverpool had troubles at both ends of the pitch as they lost for the third time in 2023 – with Jürgen Klopp, the manager, bemoaning the dismissive body language of some of his players.

The concert was better than in the 3-0 defeat at Brighton two weeks formerly but it was still not good adequate, the striker Kaoru Mitoma popping up in blockage to score a stunning winner. Liverpool, the FA Cup holders, are out of both household cups and lag ninth in the league. They overlook Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League.

“It’s bitterly household,” Robertson told. “We desire to start conquering sports but it’s easy to say and harder to fix. This summer has been nowhere near good enough. We wanted a new beginning at the turn of the year; if anything we’ve been worse.

“You can’t put your finger on one thing that’s gone mistake, it’s more than that. You can tell we’re not optimistic in front of the goal; we’re still a bit open carefully. We need to get our reliance back. I feel sorry for the fans. They were inconceivable today and we’ve let them down again.”

Klopp was uncherry that both of the Brighton goals followed set-piece freightage. “It does n’t observe great, evidently, but we have to take it,” he said. “There were treads in the fair orchestration But we have to upgrade… body speech, a pair of boys have to do much better.”

On Robertson’s comments, Klopp told: “It’s not 100% true but it’s not 100% mistake. If you want a new start when you come back later during the World Cup break, you want to go for it. And so far it didn’t cause, accurately.

“The body language wasn’t OK. The next time it has to be superior. I’m not over the moon with this concert, but the only thing that caused actually was we lost against a good side who we lost to two weeks ago in a hideous game and today was much better. There is no other way than to wrestle through.”