Why is Klopp's Liverpool farewell faltering?
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
At Anfield on Sunday, Liverpool’s terrible week got a whole lot worse.
A shock 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace has dealt a blow to Jurgen Klopp’s hopes of a second Premier League title and they have a mountain to climb in the Europa League, trailing Atalanta 3-0.
So why are Liverpool faltering at the business end of the season?Â
And can they still turn it round?
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic's Oli Kay and James Pearce to assess and analyse where things have gone wrong for Jurgen Klopp's side having gone from potential quadruple winners to seeing his reign possibly end with a whimper.
Host: Ayo Akinwolere
With: James Pearce and Oli Kay
Producer: Guy Clarke
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | At Anfield yesterday, Liverpool's terrible week got a whole lot worse. |
| 0:10.7 | Crystal Palace, lead at Anfield. Are the Eagles about to take down a title contender? |
| 0:18.1 | A shock, one-nill defeat to Crystal Palace has dealt a blow to Juergen Klopp's hopes of a second |
| 0:23.1 | league title and they have a mountain to climb in the Europa League. |
| 0:26.9 | So why are Liverpool faltering at the business end of the season? |
| 0:31.1 | And can they still turn it around? |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Ayahuakimu Lerre. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you. I'm Ayahuakimu Lerre. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. With us for this one, we have the Athletic Senior Football Writer, Ollie Kay, and our Liverpool |
| 0:47.2 | writer James Pearce as well. Well, James, you said on the Athletics Liverpool podcast, |
| 0:51.4 | Walk on, that this one cuts deep after the European defeat. |
| 0:56.6 | You at the stadium yesterday, how did it feel? |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah, it was a desperately disappointing day because, as you said, I think most people turned |
| 1:04.1 | up at Amford on Sunday expecting a response, you know, Yergan Klopp himself after the game |
| 1:08.6 | against Atalanta, when he looked a little bit shell-shot to what he'd just witnessed, said, you know, I promise Sunday will be different. |
| 1:14.9 | But in fact, what Liverpool served up was more of the same. |
| 1:18.3 | You know, another desperately slow start. |
| 1:21.4 | Again, another opponent coming to Amfield and handed the initiative. |
| 1:25.4 | And where on other occasions in the Premier League this season, |
| 1:28.1 | they've shown the powers of recovery to come from behind and dig it out on this occasion. |
| 1:34.0 | They weren't able to. |
| 1:35.5 | Just the manner of EZE's opening goal, |
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