Jurgen Klopp is adamant he has not lost confidence in his Liverpool players or his own abilities despite their campaign crashing to another appalling low.
The Reds were thumped 3-0 at relegation-threatened Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday to extend their winless 2023 in the Premier League.
A Joel Matip own goal and Craig Dawson strike inside the opening 12 minutes was followed by a Ruben Neves effort late on as Liverpool slumped to a seventh top-flight loss and 10th place in the table.
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But while critical of his underperforming players, Klopp remains convinced they can still turn their season around.
“I don’t think they are at their best at the moment,” said the Reds boss. “Do I like that? No. But I still know how good they are, and how they can be. But life is not like this.
“It’s not every day because of him, him, him. These things happen because we don’t help ourselves. Seven or eight players had no part in the first goal, seven or eight had no part in the second goal, but everybody is influenced by it. These other situations we have to go through.
“I haven’t lost confidence in the boys, but I see where we have to improve. The start is horrible, and then it’s normal, then it’s great. If we played that way when it was 0-0, I’d love to see the end result. But at the moment it’s always ‘if, if, if’. I cannot hear it any more, but it’s the situation.
“How can I fix it? Not in press conferences! That doesn’t help. I know my job, you know my job, it’s not to explain here how I can build up my team. I will be judged by you, which is fine. But today was not good enough, what I did.”
Asked if he still has confidence in his own abilities, Klopp said: “Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.”
Klopp, meanwhile, revealed Liverpool midfielder Fabinho had missed the game due to illness.
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