Jurgen Klopp: ‘The linesman thought, ‘Don’t make world-class goals if you play this s***’’

Asked what had gone wrong, Klopp said: “Nearly everything... The start, the middle and the end.”

Jurgen Klopp, who tasted defeat for just the second time in his fledgling reign, was less than happy with his side’s performance in

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He questioned the decision to rule out Moreno’s strike, although the flag had gone up long before the full-back dispatched the ball.

Asked what had gone wrong, Klopp said: “Nearly everything, I would say. The start, the middle and the end. I don’t know.

“This was obviously not a really good football game, and that was 50 per cent because of Newcastle and 50 per cent because of Liverpool FC.

“It was an open game with no rhythm from our side. We were not creative enough, so we had no chances.

“We got this goal – it was something like a Christmas present or whatever. We made our goal, but because we weren’t good enough today, the linesman thought, ‘Don’t make world-class goals if you play this s***’.

“The second goal I’m not interested in, it was a counter attack and that’s normal. So we have to take this game and think about why it happened. That’s not the biggest issue in the world.”

Klopp has no time for Sunday's game against Newcastle, no time at all: https://t.co/WTOe22Py9N

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) December 3, 2015

Speaking directly after the game, Klopp was visibly disappointed with the result, saying: “If you see the situation that Newcastle is in and the situation we are in, I have to say they deserved the win....maybe we could have deserved a point.

“I couldn’t see that we should have won three points because we were not good enough, we didn’t do what we could do.

“I have to see it again, I have to analyse this game so I know more about it.

“It’s hard work – that’s clear, but it shouldn’t be this hard because we could do better and play much more football.

“We played no counter-pressing. Pressing was not good....we were not compact enough – a lot of things we didn’t do well.

“Better you lose a bad game than a good game.”