Jurgen Klopp blasts Liverpool stars for Napoli defeat and brands it ‘worst performance’ of his reign

says Liverpool’s defeat against Napoli was the ‘worst’ performance of his reign at the club.

The Reds were beaten 4-1 by Napoli last Wednesday, in a display that was unrecognisable from what we have come to expect from Klopp’s side.

In truth, the Italians could have won by a bigger margin and it summed up Liverpool’s lacklustre start to the campaign.

Though Klopp suffered some heavy defeats during the early days of his reign at Anfield, the defeat in Naples was all there more surprising as it was just Liverpool’s fourth loss of the calendar year.

There have been defeats like the 7-2 loss to Aston Villa during Klopp’s reign, while the Reds have lost three European finals under the German.

But Klopp says the nature of the defeat in Naples makes it the ‘worst’ of his reign of his time at the club.

 ‘It was a real horror show. It was the worst game we played since I have been here. Some will point at games against for example,’ said Klopp.

‘But in those games there were glimpses of us, but in this one there was nothing. We have to understand why.

We met with the players, I watched the Napoli game a lot and we saw horrors. The players knew as well.

‘Eight out of the eleven were below the level that they normally play.

‘You solve all individual problems as a team and that’s the first thing we have to do, to follow a common idea again.

‘My teams are based on a real foundation if not nearly perfect defending.

We could have conceded more in this game, we could have scored a couple more, but the fact we could have let more in is really crazy.

;We had a meeting, showed them the situations and I didn’t have to say a lot [about Napoli].The players know. We brought ourselves to this situation.

‘We had obvious football problems which was from misjudgments. Everyone wanted to sort it by themselves. There was no structure.

‘We had 4 or 5 days now of absolute truth. Not to knock the players down, just to make sure where we are now, this is the starting point for us to sort the problems together on the pitch. There was no pointing at each other.’