Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits defeats to teams below them on table have hurt their season.
Klopp admits they weren't good enough in matches against the likes of Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth.
He explained, "The main reason is because we didn't play good enough. We had an awful lot of chances against Nottingham Forest – didn't play a super game, but had an awful lot of chances. Conceded a strange goal. It was months ago, but it was like this – they scored their goal, we had chances like set-piece moments, Virg from two yards and stuff like this. I think Bournemouth was pretty similar. We had our moments, didn't play exceptionally well, but we were the clear better side.
"In the end it was not good enough. When things are going well, everything is settled and confident and stuff like this, you finish these situations off, nobody speaks about it because on the head of a player there is like an inch different whether the ball goes in or not. In general if you don't score, you have to just try harder, try different, go again and still kill the game off if you want.
"The problem was in the Bournemouth game again everything changed after we were 1-0 down and this is a bit the story of the season. In the beginning you asked me constantly about first having to go 1-0 down to wake up. Now we go 1-0 down and everything changes in the other direction.
"Both make not too much sense, but it is kind of part of the story. That was the reason: our reaction after being 1-0 down. One-nil is just the result and nothing else; it is just one [piece of] information in the game – they finished one situation off and we didn't, but let's go from there. In the end, we missed the penalty. I am pretty sure if the ball didn't go to the hand in that situation, then Diogo's head was in if you watch it back.
"I would have then preferred if the arm was not there! These are the situations, there are so many explanations for defeats – there are always a lot, a lot, a lot of explanations, but you cannot even compare Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth. In both games we should have won, but we didn't. Should have won because of the performance, even when it was not the best performance."
