Liverpool still a work in progress – Klopp

“We are fighting a lot, we are very competitive“, Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores said.

Liverpool goalkeeper Adam Bogdan has held his hands up and admitted blame for his clanger that led to Watford’s opening goal in their 3-0 victory over the Reds on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Flores hailed Ighalo for staying with the club in the summer amid a reported £10m bid from Hebei China Fortune after bagging 12 goals in 17 Premier League appearances this season.

“Newcastle, Watford, they’re the teams you play week in week out and I think they’ll be a major shock to Jurgen Klopp – this is what the Premier League’s like and Liverpool haven’t got the players to cope in those games”. “I don’t know who will come back in this moment”.

“That’s the next problem: if you lose the games everyone is allowed to ask why this player didn’t play, when they wouldn’t after you win.

They’ve got some decent players and some that might get better but it’s going to be a long road for them”.

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“But of course it depends on the players, we create like a collective”.

“For us it’s necessary to be defending with all our players”.

“Maybe it was not the best decision [to send Benteke on late], I don’t know, we will never find out”, Klopp said.

“The easy games everybody wins, the hard games we have to win much more of than we have until now”. But we must not take our minds off the target of survival.

“He is a very intelligent guy and deserves big credit for everything we are going through now”.

“That is not easy because there are wonderful managers in the Premier League who plan things in another way”.

If Watford were surprised to have gone ahead so early and so comfortably, the rest of their performance showed no sign of it. The Hornets were composed and committed in midfield, and outplayed a disappointing Liverpool side.