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View image in fullscreenLiverpool have become ‘too easy’ to play against, admits Jürgen KloppManager says team must toughen up if they are to win the titleKlopp takes hope from return of key players from serious injury

Jürgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool have become “too easy” to play against and must toughen up if they are to stand any chance of winning the Premier League title.

Klopp’s side travel to Fulham on Sunday in third, two points behind Manchester City and below Arsenal on goal difference, having drawn and lost their past two league fixtures, against Manchester United and Crystal Palace, respectively.

Their hopes of winning a quadruple in Klopp’s final season in charge are long gone but the German still believes he can leave on a high, though only if his players rediscover the character, as well as class, that had them competing on all fronts a little over a month ago.

“There is no season where there were no moments I thought: ‘Ah, we should have won that, we should have done that.’ It is part of life that you have to deal with them,” said Klopp.

That’s how we have to deal with the situation.

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“That’s the challenge in football because we never play just for ourselves, we always have an opponent.

So we have to make sure we become that opponent for each team again that they don’t want to play against – we made it a bit too easy and we should change that.”

Klopp was generally pleased with Liverpool’s display at Atalanta on Thursday – “I loved our game,” he said afterwards – and in winning the second leg in Bergamo 1-0 they kept a first clean sheet in 10 games.

A squad ravaged by injury is slowly but surely returning to full health – Andrew Robertson, Dominik Szoboszlai and Curtis Jones have also returned from serious injury – and Klopp sees that as another reason to believe Liverpool can be champions for a second time under his charge, albeit he also expressed caution in that regard.

“It’s good to have them [back] but it is not about who wears the shirt, it is about how we perform,” he said.

With them we have a chance, with them in a really good football moment the chance gets bigger and bigger.

“I think if we would win all our games there is a good chance we will be champions.
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