"I learned a lot": Jurgen Klopp admits he didn't trust two Liverpool players

Jurgen Klopp has admitted that he should have trusted Rhys Williams and Nathaniel Phillips earlier than he did. The German boss used to play the Reds' duo in defence due to the long-term injury problems of Joel Matip, Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez. "I learned a lot," Klopp said when speaking about last season on Liverpool’s official website. “I made mistakes, so it’s easy for me to look back and think, ‘That was wrong, that was wrong…’ but in the moment when we made decisions, when we put the midfielders back and then played without protection in midfield, last line deeper, not really compact in a lot of moments, maybe we should have just played Rhys [Williams] and Nat [Phillips] completely together earlier and trusted the boys more. “In that moment I thought they were not ready, later on they were ready and they could both play, no problem, no doubt about that. That would have given us a bit more stability in other areas.”

Source: HITC 

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