If only Liverpool could have played like this in the Capital One Cup final.No penalty shootout was required to decide which team was better.
This is the third EPL defeat in a row for a weary Pellegrini and he said that his team was weary.
“I am not thinking about the title and not thinking about qualifying for the Champions League. The most important thing is to recover our performance in the next Premier League game because we have lost the last three. Of course we cannot play in the way we did today. We conceded three goals and did not shoot once at the Liverpool goal.But it was because we were not fresh. From the beginning I could see we were not fresh. Liverpool had more energy and played at a higher pace. They could make more changes. We didn’t have any midfielders to change without Yaya Touré. We had just defenders or one striker to make the change.”
Klopp who is not weary had a very different opinion of the game..
“Being tired at this moment of the season is absolutely nothing to talk about because everybody could be.I am too old to say: ‘Yes, we will play like this all the time’ – but you saw what is possible. Everyone who loves Liverpool could watch this game and forget for 93 minutes that we lost on Sunday.”