Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

LACK OF REST PLANE CRAZY

- BY ADRIAN KAJUMBA BY DAVID ANDERSON

JURGEN KLOPP claims no one believes in Liverpool because they keep on messing up.

His team have been slammed for blowing the chance to qualify for the Champions League last 16 by losing a 3-0 half-time lead to draw 3-3 against Sevilla.

They face Chelsea this evening at Anfield and Klopp says their critics ignore the fact they reeled off four straight wins prior to Sevilla.

“After the Southampto­n game, which was a really good one, everyone was really happy,” said the Reds boss. “Then we played the Sevilla one. After the second half, a few things came up and people are talking like this and you feel how it’s different.

“No-one is really believing in us. You can feel it. If we do good, it’s good, but…

“And if we don’t do good, it’s they have goofed again. The problem is the whole world watches our mistakes. That’s the problem. “Television and all that stuff. A lot of people say things about it, a lot of former players are saying things about it. “That’s our life, it will never change. We don’t have to think about it. We just have to carry on.” Alberto Moreno copped most flak because he was at fault for t w o goals, but Klopp stoutly defended the Spaniard, claiming he still trusts him “100 per cent”.

Klopp feels he might have been affected by all the emotion surroundin­g his return to his home city and former club and insists he supports his left-back. “In Sevilla, everyone was talking to him like they

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