YOU CHANT BE SERIOUS

Forget the Toffees fans giving Klopp stick, he wanted to serenade his derby flops with an uncomplimentary German football song!

JURGEN KLOPP was serenaded with ‘You lost the league at Goodison Park’ by the Everton fans on Wednesday.

But he said he felt like singing a German chant to his own players during the game.

Klopp shouldered the blame for the dismal 2-0 defeat at Everton (right) which has left his side’s Premier League title hopes on the brink.

He claimed he failed to inspire enough fight from his Reds team to win the game.

It is what led to him thinking back to his Bundesliga days when fans would sing “Wir wollen euch kampfen sehen” at their team if they were not up to it in a game.

It translates as “we want to see you fight.”

“It’s really strange but I hated our game,” said the Liverpool boss, who has seen his side drop eight points in a fortnight after a shock home defeat by Crystal Palace and a draw at Manchester United.

“We were not even close to what we want to be. The game was just horrible to watch. In Germany when the crowd is not happy with the team and they think they are not fighting enough they sing a song “Wir wollen euch kampfen sehen.”

“I was close to singing that! Never has one of my teams heard that, ever. I have never heard them say my team didn’t fight because my team always went for it.

“And now, wow, how can that happen?

“And again, easy question, who could be responsible for it?”

Liverpool head into today’s lunchtime kick-off at West Ham knowing they must beat the Hammers to stand any chance of winning the title.

But even then they will need Arsenal and Manchester City to slip up twice in their final games to be crowned English champions for a 20th time.

They trail the Gunners by three points with a massively inferior goal difference. City are two points ahead with a game in hand. No wonder Liverpool’s title odds have been pushed out to 33-1 just three weeks after they were bookmaker favourites.

Klopp insisted that the late-season blip is down to him and said he has failed his side.

He said: “I am not in the mood to give up, to wave the white flag. I think we have to look first at ourselves and make sure we play better football.

“I asked after our performance at Everton why a team who plays like that should be champions.

“I want us to use the situation. I want us to not feel the pressure. I see it as my job to create an atmosphere in which the players can be the best version of themselves. That’s what I have failed to do.

“I have had 40 or 50 hours to think about it.

“I don’t know how it happened but I didn’t see anything of what we wanted to be at the Everton game, to be honest.

“So now we had another few hours and now we try to be much more ourselves again.”