Jurgen Klopp makes blunt Liverpool admission and sends warning after Atalanta shock

Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool “lost the plot” in their Europa League shocker against Atalanta – but has warned his players cannot dwell on their dismal setback.

The Reds are on the brink of elimination after they slumped to a 3-0 defeat at Anfield against the Serie A side in their quarter-final first leg on Thursday.

Gianluca Scamacca scored twice and Mario Pasalic also netted as Atalanta inflicted the joint-heaviest home defeat for Liverpool in European history.

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And while Diogo Jota made his return from injury after two months out as a late substitute, an unhappy Klopp admits there were few positives on a dire night.

“We can make this the shortest press conference, it was a really bad game, oh my God,” said the Liverpool boss. “We started really well and then didn’t continue. Before they scored even, we just lost the plot a little bit.

“We were everywhere and nowhere. Midfield was spread like that, right midfield and left midfield, I didn’t recognise it a bit, it was really quite strange.

“In football terms, that’s tactical discipline. But we had a big chance from Darwin and unlucky from Harvey and then they scored a goal and then we kept playing into their hands, to be honest.

“A really good example of how it could have looked is the (disallowed) goal we scored. Striker wide, full-back on the left in a massive space, has all the time in the world to cross the ball and Mo scores. We should have had these situations more often. We didn’t use the man-marking besides that.

“Diogo came on and now we can’t think he is the solution. He needs time and was