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Jurgen Klopp admitted the sight of his Liverpool side conceding from a familiar Everton set-piece routine felt 'horrendous' as he watched on from the touchline on Wednesday night.

The Reds suffered a 2-0 defeat to their local rivals which could prove costly with only four Premier League games left to play.

Liverpool couldn't afford a slip-up at Goodison Park, with Klopp hoping to pip Arsenal and Manchester City to the league title in his final season on Merseyside.

But goals from Jarrad Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin consigned his side to a damaging loss.

Branthwaite opened the scoring with a scruffy goal which snuck under Alisson and trickled over the line before Calvert-Lewin headed in at the back post to cap off a well-worked routine.

"2-0, the Everton routine, and it still works," a forlorn Klopp told beIN Sports after the final whistle.

Difficult to accept but I have to do it anyway."

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Liverpool are now three points behind table-toppers Arsenal, who thrashed Chelsea 5-0 on Tuesday night.

Manchester City, meanwhile, are only one point further back with two games in hand on the Reds.

"We let it become exactly the game Everton wanted," Klopp continued in an interview with Sky Sports.

We knew exactly the ball would end up there, we just didn't defend it well enough.

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"They had free-kick after free-kick, that's an important part of the story as well.
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