Jurgen Klopp makes title race admission as Liverpool players told to ‘look in the mirror’

Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool will require their two title challengers to have a very bad moment if they re to win the Premier League after a 2-0 defeat to Everton on Wednesday.

Goals from Branthwaite and Calvert-Lewin either side of half-time secured the win – a first over the Blues’ arch-rivals at Goodison Park in almost 14 years – which lifted them eight points clear of the relegation zone with just four games remaining.

Klopp’s much-celebrated ‘last dance’ for Liverpool took a further turn for the worse after the club’s Europa League exit at the hands of Atalanta with his side now sitting three points adrift of leaders Arsenal and only one clear of third-placed Manchester City, who have two games in hand.

I can only apologise

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