Jurgen Klopp lays down challenge to Liverpool stars with Arsenal loss still hurting Kop boss

Jurgen Klopp reckons Liverpool have all the tools in the toolbox - they just need to make sure they use them right.

The Kop boss felt the Reds failed to get to grips with Arsenal last weekend. It wasn’t a hammering by the Gunners but their second defeat of the campaign did cut into the Merseysiders’ lead at the top of the Premier League table.

Manchester City can turn the screw in Saturday's lunchtime kick-off against Everton as Pep Guardiola's side can go top with a win. But the Reds can wrench back control if they return to winning ways by beating Burnley later on in the afternoon.

“We have a tool box full of the right tools, we just have to use them and we didn’t do that properly at Arsenal,” said Klopp. “We just have to admit that. That is why on top of the pure defeat that we couldn’t do that on that day was really painful. But now that was long ago and we have to try again.”

Their loss to the Gunners was just their second in the league and given the other came against Tottenham and in controversial circumstances, it is a sign of the growth of Klopp’s Liverpool 2.0 already.

But the German still appeared to be hurting from the defeat which came just days after one of their best performances of the season when they thrashed Chelsea 4-1.

“Before we played Arsenal, they were more or less out of form, out of the race, out of everything,” said Klopp. “They win the game and everything is great.

"We beat Chelsea a few days before it really looked like: 'wow, Liverpool really goes for it this year'. So it is not important and the last game is the least important if you want and the only thing you can use it for is to react.

“To maintain, to do it again or to change it and with us it is always a little bit, with the general shape