Liverpool still a 'top group' after West Brom stumble, says Klopp

The Reds have looked vulnerable at times this season with a drop in their intensity noticed this term as compared to the previous one.

Jurgen Klopp wants Liverpool to avoid another stumble after dropping points against West Brom but insists it doesn’t change the fact that his players are a ‘top group’.

The 1-1 result at Anfield on the weekend snapped Liverpool’s seven-game winning streak at home and saw them held to a draw for the fifth time in this Premier League campaign.

The defending champions have already dropped points in as many matches (6) as they did in the entire 2019-20 campaign.

32 points collected from the opening 15 games is a solid return, but it demonstrates a decline. Their points total is 11 fewer than last and seven worse than two years ago at the same stage of the campaign.

Liverpool, though, are leading the title race with a comfortable two-point cushion as well as have a game in hand against second-placed Leicester City.

“They’re a top group. They were a top group after winning 7-0 and a top group after drawing against West Brom. That doesn’t change. In the perspective from outside that can change, I can imagine,” Klopp said ahead of the trip to Newcastle United, via Sky Sports.

“I’m not a young manager anymore and I can judge these things in the right way.

“We are not happy about it but now it’s over. We cannot change that, we can just make sure in exactly the same situation, the same doesn’t happen again.”