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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: I can offer no excuses

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he has no excuses after their 2-1 FA Cup defeat to Wolves.

Klopp made nine changes from the midweek defeat to Southampton and they conceded a Richard Stearman header after just 52 seconds with an unmarked Andreas Weimann doubling their lead just before half-time.

Divock Origi sparked a frantic last five minutes with a close-range strike but it was too little, too late, as Wolves became the seventh lower-division team this millennium to knock the Reds out of the FA Cup.

"We made a lot of changes, most of them because we couldn't do differently, a few because we wanted," said Klopp.

"In our situation, after losing two games (we are) not full of confidence, not flying and the start of the game doesn't make it easier: a free-kick after a minute and a goal makes them fly.

"It makes everything easier for them and everything more difficult for us so we should have avoided a start like this but there were still 93, 94, 95 minutes to go.

"In the first half we were too static, not fluent enough and that side didn't play too often together but it should have been better.

"Second half it was better, We could have scored two times.

"I am responsible and I feel really responsible for this performance because I thought we could do better.

"I cannot explain every single thing of today but I don't look for excuses."

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