Speaking after Liverpool’s defeat to Watford on Saturday, Jurgen Klopp admitted that his side can’t be considered the best Premier League team ever.
What did he say?
The Reds headed into the clash at Vicarage Road unbeaten in the Premier League, with the tag of ‘Invincibles’ firmly in their sights.
However, Watford stunned them with a 3-0 triumph, and Klopp revealed that his team’s performance simply wasn’t good enough.
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He said (as quoted by The Daily Mail): “No (we didn’t see this result coming) it’s normal. A lot of people will say that but congratulations, I didn’t. The boys have already so many records and you cannot get a record because you want it – the record is the result of the performance and we didn’t perform today.
“We can’t be the best ever Premier League team because tonight we just weren’t good enough. Maybe we can set another record in the future.”
Still history-makers
Make no mistake about it, whilst Liverpool’s chances of going unbeaten ended in miserable fashion, their quite ridiculous feats this year in the Premier League is still going to be the stuff of legend.
The Reds have simply been in exhilarating form all year, and it has been quite staggering to see them continue to defy logic by churning out victory after victory. It takes an elite mentality for a team to even go on the kind of run the Merseyside club went on, and you wouldn’t put it past them from simply winning every game from here on out.
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