Jurgen Klopp slams referee and Liverpool players after defeat at Watford

Jurgen Klopp says Watford's opener shouldn't have counted

 

JURGEN KLOPP has hit out at referee Mark Clattenburg after today's 3-0 defeat at Watford.

 

Adam Bogdan, standing in for the injured Simon Mignolet, endured a nightmare league debut for Liverpool, gifting Nathan Ake Watford's early opening goal.

Ake picked Bogdan's pocket to prod home the opener after he dropped the ball from a corner, but Klopp believes the Reds goalkeeper had both hands on the ball after the initial mistake.

Klopp was also critical of the way his players responded to the goal as in-form striker Odion Ighalo scored either side of half-time to wrap up the three points for the Hornets.

 

The Liverpool manager explained: “It was a bad start to the game. Of course the first ball from Adam Bogdan, he should keep and he drops it. 

"Having seen it again usually it is a foul but it is 1-0 and our reaction was really bad. 

"We lost our mind and stopped playing football. The second goal was very easy, we can defend this better. 

 

Nathan Ake made the most of Adam Bogdan's early mistake

 

"We tried a bit in the first half and changed a bit half-time, the start to the second half was very good, we could have scored two goals, but we didn’t and then the third goal. Yeah, game over.

“The first one is his [Bogdan] fault, but then both hands on the ball, that is the goalkeeper safe, he has the ball. 

"It was the wrong decision but we made more wrong decisions."