Liverpool's Flat Performance and Defeat in Final European Game at Anfield

arring another of the remarkable comebacks that have decorated Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool reign, his final European game at Anfield will have featured a flat performance and atmosphere, resignation to defeat and a divide between fans and club; everything, that is, that goes against the culture he has created over the past nine years. Rediscovering the spark and belief required to win athat was not entirely of the Italian club’s making.

Liverpool also hit a wall on Thursday when searching for the intensity demanded of a European quarter-final. The worry for Klopp with seven games remaining of a delicately poised title race is that fatigue has crept into several performances of late, and against Atalanta it affected players with varying conditions and workloads.

It is harsh, and hypocritical, to blame Klopp’s decision to rest key players for Liverpool losing a 33-game unbeaten home run. His skilful juggling of resources amid considerable injury constraints is precisely why Liverpool have been able to challenge on numerous fronts this season. Klopp has used 30 players in the, the highest number in this season’s competition, and 35 across all competitions. Workloads are measured to the minute to ensure Liverpool finish campaigns strongly.

“My job is not the easiest in the world, not the most difficult as well,” said Klopp after the defeat. “But it’s about when you have players you need to make sure you get them together on the pitch and then it works out somehow. With different lineups we have played really good football this year, today we didn’t. That’s the reason we lost. There can be the headline: ‘Blah, blah, blah – it didn’t work out.’ It’s absolutely fine and right.

“Diogo was absolutely fine, 20-25 minutes helped him a lot and we will see what we can do from there. You saw Curtis, who for the majority of the season was the fittest player and pressed like crazy over 90 minutes, he was after 20 minutes 100% surprised. I was surprised as well: ‘Oh look, he feels the intensity already.’ That is why we made the change at half-time. We don’t have to force it through. We as a group have massive quality but we didn’t show it and that is why we lost.

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