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Chris Sutton fears Liverpool are starting to run out of energy in the home stretch of the season, but believes Jurgen Klopp must 'go for broke' against Atalanta in the Europa League.
Their title hopes took another massive dent as they suffered a shock 1-0 loss to Crystal Palace at Anfield - their first league defeat at home in 29 matches.
It is their second defeat in a row, and the fourth time in their last six outings in all competitions that they have failed to win. They next face Atalanta in the Europa League quarter-finals, needing to overturn a 3-0 deficit in Italy from the first-leg.
Speaking on the It's All Kicking Off podcast, Chris Sutton and Mail Sport's football editor Ian Ladyman, said that Liverpool had 'run out of energy' at the wrong time and have been hungover since their FA Cup exit to rivals Manchester United last month.
Former Blackburn, Norwich and Chelsea striker, Sutton said: 'I don't know what was the biggest shock yesterday, but I didn't see Palace going to Anfield and rolling Liverpool over. I didn't see that in the script at all. That was a shock.
Liverpool's title aspirations took a massive dent in a shock home defeat to Crystal Palace
Jurgen Klopp's side appear to have their lost their form at the worst possible time and next face Atalanta in Italy, needing a to overturn a 3-0 deficit to advance in the Europa League
Chris Sutton believes Klopp must 'go for broke' against Atalanta despite dropping two points behind Manchester City in the Premier League title race
'It seems like Liverpool, just at the wrong time, are running out of energy. Mohamed Salah, since he's come back from injury, doesn't seem the same.
'I wonder whether there's a knock-on effect. Again, it's very difficult to say but it looks like there's a hangover from the defeat against Atalanta who absolutely spanked Liverpool at Anfield on Thursday evening.
'It looked like there was a hangover from that, poor first half performance, and they huffed and they puffed and they've (n found away this season, but listening to Klopp afterwards, that's as, and you'll know this better than anybody, normally in press conferences or when he's talking to the media, he's quite spiky when his team loses.
'It sounded like he was like so flat and dejected and it's going to be a horrible end to the season for Liverpool if they don't pick up immediately.'
Ladyman added: 'So yesterday's result was, you think was a hangover from the defeat to Atalanta, which in itself was a hangover from the draw against
