Not only have the Reds horribly failed in their title defense but they also have no chance of willing a piece of silverware this season.
Jurgen Klopp maintains that Liverpool can still make their season a success by securing Champions League qualification.
Considered favorites to win the Premier League title at the start of the campaign, Liverpool find themselves struggling to get into top-four as 2020-21 approaches its end.
They were dumped out of the domestic cup competitions earlier while their European journey also came to an end last week.
A massive slip in standards, coupled with injury to Virgil van Dijk among others, and perhaps a lack of activity in the transfer market are the factors that contributed to the English champions’ misery.
It is safe to say that the Reds have largely been inferior this term, but their manager believes they can still end this season on a high.
“I’m not sure how the people outside see that, [but] for us we can make this season still a success [by] qualifying for the Champions League,” Klopp said, via Daily Mail.
“Because we won the league last year, that doesn’t mean the only thing what is possible for us to be a success would be winning the league – that would be really mad.
“That’s the problem why a lot of teams then get problems after winning something. We are not in that mood. We don’t chase our own shadow or however you want to say that, and say, ‘Oh my God, how can we get that good again?’ No, no, no. We know about all the necessary steps and all these kind of things we have to do.
“Yes, we are in a situation and we were before. And we know we have to be in that mood and we have to chase everybody – the team we play and all the others without playing them, but not in the same moment, just around that, that we really put pressure on them. That’s how it is. We felt it. I’m not sure if it was ’17 but maybe it was when Chelsea came up, they were winning all the time and it’s different.
“If we go in a game, I think, ‘OK, if we win it’s good. If not, it’s not so important. Then oh my God, Chelsea won again.’ So you go in the game in a different mood – we know that. We still did it, [we] made it that year but it was tricky. We can only make it difficult for the other teams and the only way we can make it difficult for them is by winning our own games. That’s the way we try to use.”
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