Jurgen Klopp has revealed what he 'liked' about Liverpool's 7-2 drubbing at Aston Villa before the international break.
The Premier League champions made a solid start to the defence of their crown, winning their opening three matches against Leeds United, Chelsea and Arsenal to take maximum points.
However they suffered a shock hammering at Aston Villa in the final match before the pause for internationals, suffering their biggest defeat since 1963 against the Birmingham-based side who - despite going into the match with a 100% record of their own - only avoided relegation on the final day of last season.
The majority of Klopp's men then jetted off to play for their national sides and he will only meet up with them on Friday, barely 24 hours before Saturday's 237th Merseyside derby against league leaders Everton at Goodison Park.
Speaking to Laura Woods on TalkSport, Klopp explained what he 'liked' about the Reds' Villa Park shocker ahead of the clash with the 'flying' Toffees.
"In some respects I like more than losing 3-2 because it's just more clear", Klopp said.
"We could have lost that night 3-2 and then we go home, the boys go away with their international teams, we do the analysis and that's it pretty much. But this is more useful.
"It's important the boys don't carry that defeat around with them all the time because most of them have had three games to play, pretty important and intense games for their countries and they cannot do that with one half of their brain still at Liverpool so I wanted them to focus on that.
"But I wrote down all the things I thought about the game and around the game and we can finish it for the moment.
"The challenge is now, with them having played the last international games on Wednesday and arriving back very tired on Thursday, to help them with recovery and then we have one session on Friday and we play 'flying' Everton.
"That's it, that's the situation, we cannot change it and we don't want to change it. It's another challenge".
