Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp on UCL thrashing: Opposition 'will be laughing at us'

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has warned that opposition will be «laughing» at his side after they suffered a 4-1 hammering at the hands of Napoli in their Champions League Group A opener on Wednesday.

Liverpool were outplayed in the first half and went into half time 3-0 down following goals from Piotr Zielinski, Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and Giovanni Simeone.

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Klopp's side were fortunate not to concede more goals before the break after Alisson saved Victor Osimhen's penalty. Napoli grabbed a fourth goal two minutes into the second half before Luis Diaz grabbed a consolation strike.

Liverpool face Wolves on Saturday in the Premier League and Klopp said Bruno Lage's team would have enjoyed their humiliation in Europe.

«It looks a little bit like we have to reinvent ourselves,» Klopp told BT Sport in his postmatch interview. «There's a lot of things lacking, and the fun part is that we have to do that in the middle of a Premier League and Champions League campaign.

»In three days we play against Wolves, and if they saw the game tonight they probably cannot stop laughing. They will say it's a perfect moment [to play Liverpool]. I would say it's a perfect moment. But we have to try to find a set-up to be much better in pretty much everything."

Asked what was wrong with his team, Klopp said: «Everything [wrong] is obvious, but why it happened, I cannot answer now, let me think about it. It is a really tough cookie to take, but I have to take it.»

«A little bit, it looks like, we have to reinvent ourselves, so it's really a lot of things lacking, not in all games but now. The fun part is we have to do that in the middle of a Premier League season and a Champions League