Klopp gives verdict on Mohamed Salah penalty miss vs Bournemouth

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp discusses Mohamed Salah and his missed penalty against Bournemouth

The Reds missed a golden opportunity to equalise with 21 minutes left in the game as Liverpool FC’s long wait for a penalty in the Premier League ended up with Mohamed Salah smashing it wide off target in the 1-0 loss to Bournemouth.

Anyway, even if Mo scored it from the spot, the performance was far from worth remembering and this just grounds the Reds after the 7-0 win against Manchester United last week sent the fans onto a different tangent.

With a number of tough fixtures also ahead for the Reds, it will be interesting to see what effect this loss against 20th-placed Bournemouth could have on the team. Whether it kills any confidence left in the squad or motivates the Reds to get each result possible from now onwards, that is something only time could tell.

Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah, unfortunately, missed his penalty against AFC Bournemouth. (Photo by STEVE BARDENS/AFP via Getty Images)

Speaking of the missed penalty, Jurgen Klopp spoke to reporters and here is what he had to say on Salah missing the golden opportunity to get the Reds level via Liverpool Echo:

“Honestly the last penalty we got I don’t know when it was, in the league at least, it’s long ago,” It’s completely hypothetical but I think if we score there it could turn, that doesn’t make the performance better but it could change the result, that’s it.

“He scores a lot of goals, he missed a penalty, that’s life.”

Tough Luck For the Reds

Even though we can only go so far whining and complaining about the miss, as Klopp rightly said, it is life and there is only so much we can do about it. While his scoring would have changed the scoreline, nothing changes the fact that this performance was absolute bollocks and the Reds needed a major humbling after last week.

In any case, thinking about a match after the full-time whistle is only as useful as drinking soup with a fork. Learn and move on to the next game which is the away challenge at Real Madrid with a two-goal deficit, and hopefully, we can get back at Los Blancos somehow.

Liverpool will certainly need to put in a better performance than this against Real Madrid or else we are doomed. (Photo by Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images)

In the four-day gap between this game and the challenge at the Santiago Bernabeu, the Reds should introspect on what went wrong at the Vitality Stadium and what they could have done better in certain situations. That could help the Reds a long way in facing a challenge as tough as Carlo Ancelotti’s side.

Even though the chances of the Reds going through to the next round of the UEFA Champions League are really slim, never say never in football. We are not new to beating a Spanish team after going on a three-goal deficit. The last time this happened, we beat Barca and won the Champions League in 2019.

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Hopefully, we learn from this game quickly and incorporate those things in our other Premier League games as well. The Reds next face Manchester City in the league on 1st April and till then, there is no domestic football from the Merseysiders.