Jurgen Klopp refused to blame either Alisson Becker or Virgil van Dijk for the decisive mix-up that saw Arsenal take the lead
The Reds fell behind when Alisson and Van Dijk failed to deal with a long ball over the top that led to Gabriel Martinelli putting the hosts ahead with a simple tap-in
Neither were decisive in dealing with the danger with Van Dijk waiting for an Alisson clearance that never arrived when he failed to connect with the ball
Klopp sidestepped the opportunity to bemoan his players' indecision or point the finger for the second goal, labelling it a rare "misunderstanding"
Klopp
“We conceded a very strange goal,"
"We have already spoken in the dressing room with all the people involved, it’s just unlucky. Can you hit the ball directly? Yes, but it flies strange.
"Should you expect that Martinelli brings the body a little bit, yes, but we didn’t and then all of a sudden, the ball rolls there and he has an easy goal.
“That doesn’t happen very often and will not happen very often but it has happened before and can happen.
"That made the job a bit more tricky. We will never know how it would have been had we not conceded the second goal.
“Our two main guns had a misunderstanding. It just shows they are human beings and that makes the things they usually do even more special.
"Sometimes you forget they are humans as well. They are not happy and we are not happy, 100%. But that’s it now. We had to make more of the game. Take it, deal with it, go from here."
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