Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool aren't making the right decisions yet

Plenty to think about: Liverpool have yet to find their best under Klopp
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James Benge27 October 2015

Jurgen Klopp has admitted that his Liverpool side aren’t yet making the right decisions in decisive moments.

However the new manager is confident that he will be able to end a run of eight draws in their last nine games. That has encompassed all three of Klopp’s games at the helm, which have seen Liverpool manage just two goals.

Sunday’s draw against Southampton saw a first victory snatched in the final minutes by Sadio Mane, and Klopp is now working hard to ensure that his players take their chances in tight encounters, starting with tomorrow’s Capital One Cup tie against Bournemouth.

“These players have the skills to make goals, so many skills are great,” he said. “But in the decisive moments we don't make the right decisions, that's always how football looks when you're not in the perfect shape.

“I don't think there's any doubt about the quality of the players and we have to learn more and more and try and understand why things happen like they happen.

“We don't have too much time for this [in training] so each game is very, very important.”

Klopp has no intentions of taking it easier in the League Cup and is eager to continue the run of cup success he had at Borussia Dortmund.

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“It is the same thing in Germany, the cups are very important – but when I came here, everyone said we [Borussia Dortmund] won the title twice,” Klopp added. “Nobody said we were the first double winners in Dortmund’s history…

“I don’t want to give up before we have to. It is the most important cup in the world because it is the only game we will play tomorrow.”

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