Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp accepted their lack of goal threat failed to put enough pressure on Atalanta to help turn their Europa League quarter-final back in their favour.

Mohamed Salah's seventh-minute penalty had raised hopes of a Barcelona 2019-style comeback but the Egypt international missed a relatively straightforward lob to make it 2-0 towards the end of the first half and they faded badly after the break as they exited the competition 3-1 on aggregate.

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I loved the commitment, desire and power we developed in this game but it was clear we had better score from time to time otherwise it could be tricky over 90 minutes.

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"The second goal could have helped a little bit.

We have to create a little bit more than we did in the first half as it's clear you need a result to help destabilise the opponent.

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"If you have a second goal it's a tricky one as the next goal is extra time but we didn't get to that point and we will never really know how that would have looked.

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The penalty was super convincing, a super penalty then the next chance that was unlucky, but it's not the first time has has missed chances like that.