UGLY END TO KLOPP'S DREAM

Jurgen's 'beautiful' night falls flat despite ideal start

- David Anderson

ATALANTA 0

LIVERPOOL 1

ATALANTA WIN 3-1 ON AGG

LIVERPOOL did lose in a “most beautiful way” as Jurgen Klopp demanded but they still suffered their worst European exit under him.

Not even Klopp’s poetry could hide this humiliation and this is a major black mark in his final season.

Klopp had only lost to the two Madrids and Sevilla in his eight European campaigns at Anfield and nobody expected Atalanta to add their name to that list.

As spirited as Liverpool were last night, the damage was clearly done at Anfield and even the Reds, with their fabled powers of recovery, could not pull this one back. Certainly not the Liverpool of now and all they had to show for their work was an early Mo Salah penalty.

That is the only goal they have managed in their past three games.