Jurgen Klopp attended the post-match press conference

After leading Liverpool to a disappointing 0-2 away loss against Everton in the 29th round rescheduled Merseyside derby, manager Jurgen Klopp attended the post-match press conference.

"I don't have any positive thoughts about the game. Very disappointed, very frustrated. Obviously, I've done a few interviews already, and what I want to say is: it's not good enough. We played into Everton's hands or let it happen. They scored two goals from set-pieces. The first goal, we defended it somehow three times, but in the end, they still scored. I don't even think it was Branthwaite who scored, he didn't even hit the ball well, but it rolled over the goal line. After that, we had our best period, we really put them under big pressure, we created many chances, but we didn't score. Ending the first half like that, every mistake we made gave Everton more momentum and took away our advantage. We've never had this feeling before, but it didn't matter. In the second half, our performance wasn't good enough, and we didn't have the real pressure we had at the end of the first half, and then we conceded the second goal. I think every Everton fan has already seen the replay of that goal twenty times or more, it's their regular routine. Everyone knows they're going to put the ball there, and there was absolutely no one defending the person who eventually scored. I haven't seen the replay, but I'm sure we could have defended better. The final score was 2-0, the atmosphere here is great, no matter how we performed, but it's clearly not the most inspiring performance.

I really feel sorry for everyone, obviously I'm sorry. People often talk to me about my brilliant record in derbies, especially before derbies, you'll hear "but you've never won here." But we've never lost either, and that feels really different. I really have to apologize for this, although it's unnecessary, but it's happened, and we can't change it anymore. We have to recover because the quickest turnaround is waiting for us. You can imagine, it's obviously a challenge for both our physical and mental aspects. If you win the game, then the mental shift obviously isn't a big problem, but what we have to do now is both. Maybe West Ham is rubbing their hands, hoping we'll go there limping. But I will do everything to ensure that we look more like ourselves than tonight.

How to look at the current situation in the title race, I understand, it's part of your job, but I don't know why I have to answer this question — it's obvious, you can see the standings. So, should I say now that we're still completely in the title race? We need to see a crisis in Man City and Arsenal, we need to win games, because if they start losing all their games from now on, and we perform like tonight, then nothing will change. And we haven't completely secured Champions League qualification either, so we should play better football.

You can see we're impatient in front of the goal, you can see that. Although it's been a long time, I still want to blame (the game against Manchester United): so many chances, you play so well, but you get nothing, it's really bad. Since then, we've created chances, but we can't score regularly, which is no help to us. In this situation, you don't score, and then you think, 'Ah, who cares?' You can't behave like you've scored 15 goals in the past two games or something, you can see that, that's the problem.

Things are always like this: you have to fight hard in these periods, nothing changes. People have asked me about mentality before, there are different aspects of mentality, it's not an attitude problem. My job is to put them in an environment where they have the confidence to do it, and in this regard, I am responsible for everything that happened tonight, so I don't feel good about it. But obviously, this is the most difficult part of football, and it hasn't been solved yet, so we have to keep working.

There must be different aspects to Liverpool's recent poor form. Players who have played in all games will inevitably not adapt well, but other teams are the same. I don't want to use this as an excuse, really — as long as the players are healthy and not injured, it will help. Let me say, Gabriel and Saliba also played in all the games for Arsenal, are they playing fewer games than us? I don't know, but they've also played a lot of games. The situation after returning from injury is obviously slightly different because the intensity of the game is different — the game won't wait for you. The intensity of leading teams is very high, always sprinting at full speed, always pushing, pushing, pushing, and we can't change (players), which is very difficult.

I know there is Jones on the bench, but we don't know if we have to let him in, because there are two situations — we only knew about Diogo's (Jota) situation two days ago, and Cody's (Gakpo) situation we only knew today. So, for an 18-year-old boy, this is no longer a game, and Tarkowski and Branithwaite will make you die miserably in this situation, which is of no help to the game. So, many things have happened, and the timing is not good, I admit that. I would rather sit here and win 4-0, be happy, and look forward to the next game. I've said it before, our job is to win games, the more we win, the more successful we are. Now, we haven't won enough victories, so we'd better start winning again."