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Klopp urges Liverpool to improve decision-making in wake of Rubin Kazan draw

New Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has outlined the changes that he wants to make having overseen his side's 0-0 stalemate with Rubin Kazan on Thursday night.


Klopp was watching his side for the first time at Anfield in the Europa League tie against the Russians.

Liverpool fell behind early on and needed Emre Can to rescue a point, after Kazan has been reduced to ten men.

Asked whether he felt frustrated after watching his side finish for a point the German coach was adamant that he would turn the mentality of the team around.

Klopp said: "Oh, it's not frustrating. Usually it is. But what we did today was better. Sometimes faster, sometimes more consequence, and we got into better positions. The guys tried.

"We got this very, very nice goal. Of course, we could have defended better [for the first goal] but in the last moments it was brilliant from their striker.

"Against 10 men, we had to find solutions, sometimes we found them. "We had many shots on the goal, like 35. I would say that 98 per cent is okay, but the last two per cent is down to the decision-making."

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