By Joe Bernstein for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 22:40 GMT, 5 January 2019 | Updated: 22:40 GMT, 5 January 2019
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Jurgen Klopp set the Liverpool bounceback in motion within 48 hours of their first Premier League defeat of the season at Manchester City.
Though pleased with the performance at the Etihad, the highly driven manager detailed to his players the small mistakes that cost them — errors he doesn’t want repeated in order for the title to return to Anfield.
‘It takes a night for me to think about games and then speak out to the lads about what I saw,’ says Klopp.
Jurgen Klopp has started planning Liverpool's recovery after defeat to Manchester City
‘We don’t want to make too big a fuss of one game because it was by the smallest of margins but it wouldn’t be too smart if I said everything was brilliant. We could have calmed the game down earlier.
‘Could we have defended the second goal better with the high line? Yes.
‘The result wasn’t positive but the performance wasn’t negative. We won three games against City last season but in these games they were better, we only scored more goals.
‘In this one, the possession was 50-50, we caused them problems. Everybody would say it was a very tight game.’ It may be a blessing for Klopp that having seen his side’s gap at the top reduced to four points, Liverpool have an extra day off and a different competition to contend with, tomorrow night’s
