Liverpool were down three goals against Napoli by half time and went on to lose 4-1.(Highlights)
In contrast – Man City beat Sevilla 4-0 (Highlights) and Spurs beat Marseille 2-0 (Highlights)
“It looks a little bit like we have to reinvent ourselves,” Klopp told BT Sport in his postmatch interview. “There’s a lot of things lacking, and the fun part is that we have to do that in the middle of a Premier League and Champions League campaign.
In three days we play against Wolves, and if they saw the game tonight they probably cannot stop laughing. They will say it’s a perfect moment [to play Liverpool]. I would say it’s a perfect moment. But we have to try to find a set-up to be much better in pretty much everything.
Everything [wrong] is obvious, but why it happened, I cannot answer now, let me think about it. It is a really tough cookie to take, but I have to take it.
A little bit, it looks like, we have to reinvent ourselves, so it’s really a lot of things lacking, not in all games but now. The fun part is we have to do that in the middle of a Premier League season and a Champions League campaign.”
No quick fix seems likely for this unexpected series of unfortunate incidents.
It’s going to take a miracle or two to get Liverpool back on track this season.