Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he cannot explain their poor form after defeat at Wolves.

The Reds fell to a 3-0 loss at Molineux in the Premier League, with the hosts forging into an early two-goal lead through Joel Matip's own goal and a Craig Dawson strike. Ruben Neves completed the scoring in the second half.

Klopp said, "Very frustrating, very disappointing. The start into the game was horrible, absolutely horrible; it was the opposite of what we wanted to do. The first 12 minutes, 2-0 down, is absolutely never helpful, but especially in our situation. It is absolutely not allowed to happen. Not for being passive, not for doing what we did in these moments. So, we saw different games today – all in one.

"The first 12 minutes, then an OK away performance where we created, we were there, that was absolutely OK. Then we started extremely well in the second half. The first 25/30 minutes of the second half was brilliant, was a super away game without scoring and then they scored the third goal from a counter-attack and the rest is then getting it over the line, pretty much. We caused that misery with the first 12 minutes. You can ask me if I can explain it; it is now 10 or 15 minutes after the game, still not. That cannot happen, it cannot. It did, I know, but that's really tough to swallow.

"You can criticise, you can judge us, you can say whatever want and you are probably right – I have nothing to say against that because these 12 minutes are not allowed. Coming here with all the things we did in the last few days – and during the whole season so far – with what we want, then you arrive here and this is the outcome, that's really hard to take, I have to say. We had other games with conceding early goals, we had that since the last season so it was now not that much anymore, but we didn't win games so then it's pretty likely when you lose games that you concede the first one. Again, these 12 minutes we were the worst for a while."