ATALANTA ON JUGEN CLOP WITH THREE GOALS

 

It was painful lose at unified stadium with three goals to Neal, ATALANTA bit LIVERPOOL upon clop's last dance

It was just as well the protesting supporters brought no flags to Anfield. They may have been at half-mast at full-time to signal the likely end of Jürgen Klopp’s final European adventure as Liverpool coach.

If this was Klopp’s last dance on a Uefa night on Merseyside, it was full of missteps – slow, sad and stumbling. Meek applause rather than customary fist pumps reflected the shock after the first home defeat in 34 games.

Optimists will dream on and suggest Klopp’s Liverpool farewell will not be complete without a stirring European comeback. Whether they have the capacity to pull it off once more against Atalanta next week is debatable. A fatigued, dishevelled Liverpool were ripped apart by the Italian side, who could have scored more than the three that secured a famous victory. They will back themselves to add to their tally in Bergamo.

The defeat is based on the revenge of Five goals to zero when LIVERPOOL scored against ATALANTA last season, now it was time for pay back

History offers hope, of course. Klopp’s greatest scalp was against Barcelona five years ago, when his side faced the same first-leg deficit. It requires an imaginative leap to summon similarities. On that dizzying night in the Nou Camp, the three-goal defeat was a travesty. Liverpool could believe in miracles for the return.