JURGEN KLOPP WANTED TO SHOUT DORTMUND CHANT AT LIVERPOOL PLAYERS AS TITLE SLIPPED AWAY

Jurgen Klopp was serenaded with ‘You lost the league at Goodison Park’ from the Everton fans on Wednesday.

But after he admitted he hated watching the Merseyside Derby unfold, he felt like singing a German chant at his own players during the game. Klopp takes the blame for the 2-0 loss to Everton which has left his side’s Premier League title hopes on the brink.

He reckons he ‘failed’ to inspire enough fight from his side 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 literally translates to “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 defeat also by Crystal Palace and a draw at Manchester United. “We were not even close to what we want to be, I never understood it like that where I just sit there and [think] 'well he does not want it, or he doesn't want it' because I know they want.

"So it is my job to make sure that they can. And again 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” that translates into "we want to see you fight!".

"I was close to singing that! Never has one of my teams heard that ever. Never. I 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?

“I don't put myself into the ground. That is how I understand the job. And that is what I try to do all the time. Sometimes it works out and this time for whatever reason it didn't but I will try it again."

Liverpool head into Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off with West Ham knowing they must beat the Hammers to stand any chance of winning the title. But even then they need Arsenal and Manchester City to slip up twice in their final games for the Reds to be crowned English champions for a 20th time as they trail the Gunners by three points with inferior goal difference.

City are two ahead with a game in hand. Klopp insists that is down to him as he ‘failed’ his side. He added: “I am not in the mood to give up, to wave the white flag, these kind of things. I just think we have to look first after ourselves, just make sure we play better football.

“I said after the game, why should a team who plays like us against Everton, why should we be champions? I want us to use the situation. I want us to not feel the pressure, for whatever reason it is.

“I see it as my job to create an atmosphere where they can be the best version of themselves. That's obviously what I have failed. I don't know how, I have had 40 or 50 hours' time to think about it. I don't know where 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.”

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