Jürgen Klopp
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Yeah, I hate the result, but the performance was for sure not our best in the season, but good enough to get a point here.
Usually if you don't concede this goal, it's clear against Chelsea, you have to avoid crosses, in that situation I'm not 100 per cent sure, but if I'm right, we were two versus one, not close enough, so we couldn't avoid a cross, and then it's there and it's difficult against Giroud.
That was the goal, before that they had another chance, a similar one I think.
But Chelsea is strong, but then we had the ball and we had to create, and we did our best, we had a few really good moments, but at the end it was for sure not clinical enough, and that's it then.
So, how I said, performance was OK with all the games we had so far, but the result is absolutely the opposite of what we wanted.
because they have quality and a defensive plan.
You saw it, I played with eight people in and around the box and two very, very good offensive players, that's a smart plan to be honest.
Before the game we didn't mention it, but of course it's all physical intent, so what we did so far and then the longer the game is,
Of course it's more difficult.
I thought really how we came into spaces we had to come, half spaces for crosses, that was good.
We had moments at the wing, we could have come in behind, started really early really good with a good ball from Bobby,
So we had these moments, you don't get 20 chances against Chelsea.
I don't know exactly how many we had, and at the end, with the high balls and the crosses, we were a little bit unlucky, I would say, it was two situations where you can score.
We didn't do that, so...
It was clear that can happen, you cannot go to Chelsea and think and be shocked after you lose against Chelsea.
So that's always possible, that's no problem, we did that now, so now we have one full week, what will help us massively.
We spoke about that, we don't have the squad, we have injury problems and it doesn't help, the boys play nearly constantly, the other boys coming back from injuries or whatever have no rhythm,
about to come on, I would have known that he plays like this, like he played, and he would have started probably.
But that's the problem, so 11, 12 players play constantly, and that never helps, that's clear.
That's why I'm so happy that we have now one week, full week, and then we can show our full strength.