The Reds crashed to a shock 3-0 home defeat to their Italian opponents in Thursday's (11.04.24) quarter-final first leg and the coach felt that the result was completely merited.

Klopp said: "It just was a really bad game, oh my god. We started well, really well, and then didn't continue. I think even before they scored, we just lost the plot a little bit, we were everywhere and nowhere.

"[The] midfield was spread like that, right midfielder left side, left midfielder, striker. I didn't recognise that, that was really strange. In football terms that's tactical discipline.

"We played a bad game, we deserved to lose and we must feel that now."

Liverpool have successfully completed European comebacks in the past but Klopp doesn't want to focus on next week's second leg with a Premier League clash with Crystal Palace to come on Sunday (14.04.24).

He said: "I believe it's not the moment to talk about that. I'm not in the mood to think about the game in a week's time when we have another in between.

"Definitely we have to try, we want to win the game but now is not the moment to have a big mouth. We have to play a really good game.

"Where we are, this is probably a low point for us performance-wise so it should be possible to play a little bit better and we can play a lot better. But first and foremost it's about Sunday now."