Klopp Bristles At Criticism: ‘We Liverpool Don’t Play PlayStation’

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp snapped at a journalist after being asked about taking risks.

Liverpool lost the initiative in the Premier League title race for the first time since December on Sunday with a 0-0 draw against Everton.

You can read 16 Conclusions on a game in which the Reds had just three more shots than their bitter rivals, and as many on target.

Klopp was criticised after the game for his substitutions, which saw James Milner, Roberto Firmino and Adam Lallana brought on instead of Naby Keita or Xherdan Shaqiri.

The German, who had some wind complaints after the game, insisted that Liverpool tried to win the game.

“I’m really disappointed about your question. We don’t play PlayStation,” he said.

“Do you think we didn’t take enough risks today? It’s a really disappointing question because that means it’s so easy – I just say ‘come on boys, we take more risks, we go for it’. Can you imagine? Is there any draw we didn’t try to win?”

Yeah. Napoli away. You did such an emphatic job of trying not to win and playing for a draw that you lost in the last minute.

“What is that? An extra attacker just to go wild? You think it’s like PlayStation; bring on an extra attacker and football changes? It’s not like that. We are offensive enough. Football doesn’t work like that. We don’t lose our nerve.

“But sticking on another striker and another striker? Yes sometimes you need them but you need the right things in the right moment. That doesn’t always mean a striker.

“We have an offensive team and we take the risks, no doubt about that. But it’s not the moment we say ‘throw everything in that direction’.

You cannot play in the Premier League like that. We play Burnley next week; if we only play offensively they will kill us on the counter-attack.

“We take risks but you cannot take more than 100 per-cent risks. It’s not going nuts – it’s not about that.”

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