Liverpool must be more consistent to compete with Manchester City next season, admits Jurgen Klopp
Liverpool are 17 points behind Pep Guardiola’s men in the Premier League and Jurgen Klopp suggested his side need to iron out the hiccups in form
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Your support makes all the difference.Jurgen Klopp has admitted that Liverpool need to be far more consistent in order to challenge Manchester City for the Premier League title next season.
Liverpool currently sit third in the table ahead of this weekend’s match with West Bromwich Albion, and look set for another season in the Champions League.
They have managed to reach the semi-finals of the competition this time around as they waltzed past City in the quarter-finals. However, they are 17 points behind Pep Guardiola’s men in the Premier League and Klopp suggested his side need to iron out the hiccups in form if they are to chase down the champions next season.
“When we started the season there were different opinions about different clubs and who could be where and a lot of people would have said Man City would be champions, maybe Chelsea or United, but no one thought about us and that is OK,” said Klopp.
“Around us there is development as well and there will be next year but it is always that you want to finish better than the year before, that is the minimum target you have. Hopefully we can finish the season again in a Champions League spot and then we have a little bit of space for improvement football-wise and result-wise and what you need for that is consistency.”
Liverpool have played City four times this season, winning three of those encounters. However, Klopp says that it was the games against teams lower in the table that cost them this season.
“The gap between us and City was not in the games against City, it was in other games and a few points we missed were kind of unlucky and a few were our own responsibility and we have to work on that.”
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