Jurgen Klopp defends Loris Karius

Jurgen Klopp has come out and defended Loris Karius after the goalkeeper made a mistake against Tranmere Rovers.

It didn’t have an impact on the result as the Reds prevailed 3-2 in the pre-season friendly, but many Liverpool fans have had no issue showing their concern regarding the German goalkeeper on social media.

Karius, who was concussed at the time, made two errors in the Champions League final against Real Madrid in Kiev last season, and he has continued his poor form with a mistake against Tranmere Rovers yesterday.

Klopp was asked about Karius after the game, and he made it clear that he knows his No 1 goalkeeper will come under more scrutiny than ever before due to what happened in the Champions League final.

“Yeah, it will probably happen for a while until he has a few fantastic games, that is how the situation is,” Klopp said, as quoted by Sky Sports.

“We cannot change that. Our job is to perform and you do what you do and that is part of the deal.

“Yes he could have made that save even though the shot was not easy to deal with.

“I’ve seen this situation 500 times at least in my life – ‘Bam’, against the chest, (ball) going down.

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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – Wednesday, December 6, 2017: Liverpool’s goalkeeper Loris Karius during the UEFA Champions League Group E match between Liverpool FC and FC Spartak Moscow at Anfield. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)

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“Now Loris concedes that goal but we cannot start the story always after each mistake. Mistakes will happen.

“I don’t like it, you don’t like it, he doesn’t like it, but they do happen. So let’s carry on and make the best of all these situations to learn from it.

“No one likes that goal but if we talk about the second goal I think it was Millie’s (James Milner’s) fault together with (Pedro) Chirivella.

“Two brilliant footballers make this mistake, which one was the bigger? I would say the second one but we don’t talk about that.”

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