Jürgen Klopp left 'sad' as Liverpool attackers fall flat | OneFootball

Jürgen Klopp was left feeling “sad” after he felt Liverpool’s attacking players did not offer enough in Sunday’s Community Shield defeat to Arsenal.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gave the Gunners an early lead, but Liverpool levelled 17 minutes from time through Takumi Minamino.

The game went to penalties and Aubameyang netted the decisive kick after Rhian Brewster failed to convert.

“Today I was sad,” Klopp told BT Sport. “When you play against a formation like this – which happens to us pretty much always – you must be fresh in the final third.

“You want to force it sometimes, create angles, create crosses, passing in behind, all this kind of stuff. The rhythm for that fell a little bit.

“We couldn’t the chances we wanted, but we had two of them and the third one that we scored with. Against a team like Arsenal, on some days it must be enough.

“When you finish it off, it is enough. When you don’t finish it off it’s not enough and today it was not enough.”

Premier League champions Liverpool finished seven places and 43 points ahead of the Gunners last term, but Arsenal ultimately lifted the trophy.