Jurgen Klopp has intimated he is fed up talking about Liverpool's good football as their Anfield goal drought continued.
The Reds have now gone 528 minutes without scoring from open play at home after a 2-0 defeat to Everton on Saturday.
Liverpool had 72% possession, made more than 400 more passes than the Blues and managed 15 attempts at goal, six of which were on target.
But Klopp has suggested all of this counts for nothing unless the Premier League champions rediscover a finishing touch that sees them remarkably still the third-highest goalscorers in the top flight this season.
"We could talk about the football we played, but we lost," said the Reds boss.
"And even I can't hear it any more, talking about the good stuff we do and we have to do. We have to play the football we play.
"We created a lot, an awful lot. In the end, we didn't finish one situation off. We didn't use the opportunities, that's the truth.
"Tough to take, but we have to take it."
Jordan Henderson limped off after half-an-hour to join Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Joel Matip, Fabinho, Diogo Jota, James Milner and Caoimhin Kelleher in the treatment room.
Liverpool were further irked when Trent Alexander-Arnold was adjudged to have fouled Dominic Calvert-Lewin for Everton's game-clinching late penalty.
Klopp, though, refused to use misfortune as a reason for a first derby defeat of his tenure.
"I cannot speak about that," he said to liverpoolfc.com. "The ref decided the pen. If we would have lost 1-0, where's the difference?
"Injuries, it was unlucky with Hendo definitely, but Nat (Phillips) played a super game so that was not the problem in the end, not for today at least.
"They scored twice, we didn't score. That's why we lost."
