Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists he won't injuries as an excuse for their season problems.
Klopp bemoaned the litany of problems across the campaign but said he was refusing to make excuses as he called on everyone involved to stick together in the battle to get back into the top four.
"We had a similar situation two years ago [with injuries], I'm sorry," Klopp said. "The year after that, we had a completely different situation, we could use them all. Sometimes it happens. Could anybody know how the last season of 63 games could influence this season? I don't think anybody could know.
"We had a holiday, not too much, but we had a holiday, there were games here and normally the boys are used to these kinds of things. They all looked fine and then it started with Diogo Jota coming back from international duty and getting injured and then bam, bam, bam. So that's how it starts.
"Luis Diaz [was injured] twice and now Darwin's suspension and now [injured]. These kinds of things offensively. Earlier in the season midfielders were not available so that is why we brought in Arthur, who then got injured. That's the situation.
"There is a lot of bad luck, I know. Bad luck is only a reasonable point when you have it yourself. For everybody else bad luck is 'yeah, so what?'. Maybe we are but would I do anything different? I wouldn't go in the first week [of pre-season] to Asia, not because Asia is not great but I would go in the third week to Asia or something like that. It was not really in our hands.
"Things get decided and we deal with it. Is that the reason? No, I don't think so. Would it be better to have done it differently? Yes. These kinds of things we learn from. In the end we have to deal with them.
"We played until the last match day [last season]. We planned the pre-season long before that. We were in a super positive mood, we could have won everything and then all of a sudden we don't win everything. That's how it is. It can happen. That's the situation now."