
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is confident his players will learn from their midweek defeat to Inter Milan.
The result still saw Liverpool reach the Champions League quarterfinals on aggregate.
Klopp said, "We are not good losers, honestly. I have usually after the game a little speech in the dressing room; actually most of the time it is quite nice, to say to the boys how good they were and stuff like this.
"Obviously in this game it was slightly different. I realised when I looked in their eyes I was in a better mood than the players when I came in and I lost as well. My first thought was, 'We are through against a tough opponent.' The boys' first thought was, 'Wow, we lost.' Both are fine somehow. Always in life reaction is important. We have to see, we have to show a reaction. I'm pretty sure we will.
"In the game, the result is only the result and I am obviously very interested in the performance and I didn't like parts of the performance, especially defensively. That's now a good point to make before you play Brighton because if you don't defend properly against Brighton you have a problem, definitely a problem. Our counter-press was not even close to what I would have expected in this game and we got punished for it.
"Do I like losing? No. Do I like the fact that if you don't do what actually the plan was that you then got a knock for it? Yes. I would have been happy with a draw as well, that would have been enough of a knock, but now we lost.
"We could have won. With all the chances we had; OK, some of them against 10 men, but before already. It would have covered a couple of things for this game, problems we don't have that often but we had in that game. We have to stop having these problems, we have to show that we understand there is a way we can cause each team in the world problems – and we should better use that way."
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