Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp accepted their lack of aim menace did not put sufficient strain on Atalanta to assist flip their Europa League quarter-final again of their favour.
Mohamed Salah‘s seventh-minute penalty had raised hopes of a Barcelona 2019-style comeback however the Egypt worldwide missed a comparatively easy lob to make it 2-0 in direction of the top of the primary half and so they pale badly after the break as they exited the competitors 3-1 on mixture.
That meant for less than the third time within the twenty first century, England don't have any groups within the semi-finals of the Champions League or Europa League/UEFA Cup.
“We didn’t lose the tie tonight, we lost it at home,” Klopp mentioned after a 3-0 first-leg defeat proved decisive.
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“It’s very straightforward to congratulate Atalanta as a result of they deserved to undergo. If you win a tie in opposition to us 3-1 in particularly this manner you deserve it completely.
“However I cherished our sport, particularly the beginning. I cherished the dedication, want and energy we developed on this sport but it surely was clear we had higher rating occasionally in any other case it could possibly be difficult over 90 minutes.
“The second aim may have helped just a little bit. We've got to create just a little bit greater than we did within the first half because it’s clear you want a outcome to assist destabilise the opponent.
“You probably have a second aim it’s a difficult one as the subsequent aim is further time however we didn’t get to that time and we'll by no means actually understand how that might have appeared.
“Disappointed we didn’t go through but not frustrated or angry. If you don’t deserve it, it’s all good.”
Salah has appeared nicely in need of his medical greatest since coming back from virtually two months out with a hamstring downside.
Regardless that he has scored six in 11 sport since he got here again two of these have been penalties and he's squandering extra possibilities he would usually be anticipated to take.
“I’m not particularly concerned. That’s what strikers do. That’s how it it is. We have to go through it, he has to go through it,” added Klopp.
“He's one among most skilled gamers within the squad. That’s just about all.
“It’s not that Mo didn’t miss possibilities earlier than in his life, that’s a part of the sport. The penalty was tremendous convincing, a brilliant penalty then the subsequent likelihood that was unfortunate, but it surely’s not the primary time has has missed possibilities like that.
“I won’t make a big story of it. I’m not particularly concerned.”
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