'We have to respond' - Jurgen Klopp hopes Liverpool team meeting will spark improvement against Ajax

Jurgen Klopp has revealed Liverpool have had “four or five days of absolute truth” following the “worst” performance of his tenure against Napoli. Liverpool have endured a rocky start to the season, winning just two of six Premier League games and losing 4-1 to Napoli in their Champions League opener. Ad They host Ajax on Tuesday in their first game since the heavy defeat in Italy.

Champions League'Work to do' — Klopp needs to 'get confidence up' in Liverpool squad, says Fowler07/09/2022 AT 22:00 “Is this the situation I wanted? No, but now we're in it, I find it interesting and challenging," said Liverpool manager Klopp. «Good things happened in the past and this team showed so much consistency. We have to respond.» Klopp says the team have had honest meetings where they didn't «hide anything» in a bid to improve the situation.

“We had to talk, we had to show and we had to train. That’s what we did. Arsenal v PSV postponed due to policing demands How to watch Liverpool v Ajax in Champions League «We had a general meeting, showed them the situations and they were too obvious, it was not needed to say a lot.

Do I question the players? Generally no. But in this situation yes. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you do that? »We had obvious football problems, defending, attacking, these kind of things, and what leads to these problems is a misjudgement of the situation.

The players want to sort the situation. “We are not over the moon about our season so far. But in this game it looked like everybody wanted to sort the problem for themselves and that gave us no structure to work together.

“We had four or five days now of absolute truth. We didn’t hide anything or hold back anything, we said it how it is. Not to knock the