Liverpool head coach Jurgen Klopp knows that his team is an outsider in the title race.
The Reds lost 2-0 to Everton, marking yet another missed chance to keep pace with Arsenal at the top.
With Manchester City behind them having two games in hand, Klopp knows the title may be out of their reach in the coming weeks.
After the Wednesday defeat, Klopp said: I understand it, it's part of the business, but I don't know why I have to answer this question obviously you can read the table.
So, should I say now we are still fully in? We need a crisis at [Manchester] City and Arsenal, and need to win football games, because if they start now losing all the games and we do what we did tonight, nothing changed. And we are not safe in the Champions League as well so we should just play better football.
You can see we are in a rush in front of the goal, you can see that. It's long ago but I blame a little bit the [Manchester] United game for it; that many chances and you play really good but you don't get anything for it. That's really bad.
Since then, we create but we don't score often enough and that doesn't help. It's not like in a situation like that you don't score and then just [think], 'Ah, forget it, who cares?' You cannot act like you scored 15 goals in the last two games or whatever. You can see that and that's a problem. It's always like this: you have to fight through these periods, it was never different.
People asked me already about mentality. The mentality has different aspects. It's not a problem of attitude. The boys want; nobody is doing anything like that on purpose. It's my job to bring them into a situation that they feel confident to do it. With that part, I'm responsible for everything that happened tonight, so it's not that I feel great. But that's the most tricky part of football obviously, and in the moment it didn't work out and now we have to keep trying."
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