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Viewers in hysterics at Jesse Marsch’s celebrations | Jurgen Klopp criticised over excuse

Viewers were in hysterics at Jesse Marsch’s celebrations after Leeds’ second goal while Jurgen Klopp was criticised over an excuse of his.

Liverpool’s dismal start to the Premier League season goes on as Crysencio Summerville’s 89th-minute strike clinched a 2-1 win for Leeds at Anfield on Saturday.

Summerville reacted quickest from a left wing cross sent in by Wilfried Gnonto to poke a low finish beyond Alisson Becker and hand Liverpool their second consecutive Premier League defeat and their fourth in 12 games this season.

Liverpool tried to get a winner after Mohamed Salah cancelled out Rodrigo’s fourth-minute opener following a defensive mix-up between Alisson and Joe Gomez, however they couldn’t find a way past Illan Meslier, who made nine saves, the joint-most by any goalkeeper in a Premier League game this season.

Leeds defended well and remained a threat on the counter-attack throughout, with Brenden Aaronson hitting the bar in the first half before Summerville’s dramatic winner.

The much needed victory ends a four-game losing streak for Leeds, Marsch showed just how relieved he was at his side coming away with all three points, and rising out of the relegation zone.

Ninth-placed Liverpool continue their a nightmarish start which has seen them fall 13 points behind Manchester City and eight behind fourth-placed Newcastle.

It was Marsch’s celebrations that had people talking, doing the Ali G ‘booyakasha’ finger snap in the face of Klopp and the Liverpool bench, with the Liverpool boss quickly turning away as the American done it…

Player ratings

Liverpool: Alisson (6), Alexander-Arnold (6), Gomez (4), Van Dijk (5), Robertson (7), Fabinho (5), Thiago (6), Elliott (5), Salah (7), Firmino (6), Nunez (6).

Subs:Henderson (6), Jones (5), Milner (6).

Leeds: Meslier (9), Kristensen (7), Koch (7), Cooper (7), Struijk (7), Roca (7), Adams (8), Harrison (6), Aaronson (7), Summerville (8), Rodrigo (8).

Subs: Bamford (6), Gnonto (7).

Player of the match: Illan Meslier

Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports:

“The big story will be Liverpool again – what has gone wrong with this team this season, on the back of what they’ve done in the last four or five years and especially last season, when they were two games away from winning four trophies? They look an absolute shadow of themselves.”

“There’s no doubt that the goalkeeper in the last 10-15 minutes kept Leeds in it, but if you look at the whole game you can’t say Leeds haven’t deserved to get something from it.

“They’ve been fantastic. Klopp must be thinking, what else can I try now? Different permutations, formations, personnel…

“This isn’t a blip for Liverpool, this is a serious problem.”

Graeme Souness on Sky Sports:

“Leeds were a team playing under pressure, you said they were a young team. They didn’t play like a young team tonight.

“They played like they believed in what they were going to do and believed they were going to get a result.

“You could say it was a lucky first goal, but that’s not why Liverpool lost the game.

“Liverpool are a country mile from where they were in the last few years, they don’t play with the same intensity.

“They basically used to bully teams, the midfield bullied teams, and now they’re being bullied.”

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to BBC’s Match of the Day: “We started well and then bam we are 1-0 down after a crazy situation. We fight back, we score a deserved equaliser and played an OK first half against a good side.

“We did OK, but we didn’t use the chances in the moment.

“Second half, we wanted to go for it, but we are not really controlled. We are hectic in moments. Little things, but they are important in football. This kind of decision making doesn’t come easy to us in this moment.”

“At 1-1 we had some massive chances, but the biggest disappointment of the game is how we defended for the second goal. That shouldn’t happen.”

“I would have easily taken the draw in this moment, which is difficult, but now we stand here with nothing, which is completely different.

“We play every three days. It is a brutal season for us because we have had injuries from the first day and some players we have had to rush back.

“But we have to fight through this and we will.

“So many things are unlike us in this moment. I am sorry it is like this, but that is the situation. I am not sure how deep you can dig, but we will. It is like it is and we will work on solutions.

“We have to have a look at this game first, try to understand it a bit more and go from there.”

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp to Sky Sports:

“A setback, absolutely. I thought we had a really good start to the game then we conceded a freakish goal.

“We scored the equaliser but it didn’t give us the complete security back for whatever reason. We struggled with controlling the game, which is difficult against a side with the speed they have upfront.

“We gave too many balls away. The boys really tried, we had a lot of possession, we had big chances.

“But the problem is we cannot control this kind of game in the moment, and that’s obviously a problem.

“With the amount of games we have, maybe some players are a little bit overplayed.

“You cannot defend like we defended around the second goal – it’s just not possible. But we did and I’m not sure how to explain that now. It’s happened anyway and that’s why we lost.

“Otherwise, it would have been a point which would have been deserved as well and then we take a point and go from there but now we have nothing which feels completely different.”

Leeds manager Jesse Marsch, speaking to Sky Sports: “It was a good performance, again. It was good that we were able to reward ourselves. My feeling is that we shouldn’t be in the situation we’re in, but we are. I’ve tried to stay calm, but I’ve also tried to push. The players have stepped up big today, that’s the reason we were able to get the win.

“You can go through the last eight games and we weren’t second best a lot of the times. We talked about staying strong and finding ways to make plays. It’s a tough place to come and the three points is big for us.

“With our principles, pressing, counter-pressing, ability against the ball and in transition… In the first half we could have had more goals. It felt like we were going to go into half-time at 1-1 which seemed unjust.

“We switched Crysencio Summerville and Jack Harrison to try and swap their roles a little bit. Patrick Bamford came in and helped. Wilfried Gnonto came in and helped. I thought all the substitutes did a good job.

“I was focused on us staying disciplined within the match. I’ve believed in this group. We shouldn’t be in this situation if you look at the metrics, but we are. Now we’ve got something like this and now we have to stay strong.

“We’re still in the process of trying to build something that’s new. In our good moments we’re really good, in our bad moments we look too vulnerable and naïve.

“Everybody’s made a big deal about firing me, but the board and I have been unified and we’ve stuck together.”

Leeds manager Jesse Marsch, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “I think it was three points that are deserved. Obviously there’s a brief celebration [after the second goal], but then it was about thinking about the changes we needed to preserve the win.

“We have stuck together. We haven’t always been perfect. We believe in what we’re doing and we’ve tried to stick to the plan and rise more to the challenge. I think today we saw that.

“Today we increased the moments where we were focused and decreased the moments were we were vulnerable and focused.

“I thought in the first half we were quite good. After we conceded the goal we stuck with the match plan. We were a little bit unlucky not to find the second or third goal in the first half.

“We haven’t wavered. In this day and age it’s hard to create an isolated environment in football, especially in the Premier League. Everyone’s got an opinion on everything that happens. I’ve just tried to stick to my beliefs. That’s what a leader does, especially when it’s tough.”

As mentioned, viewers were in hysterics at Jesse Marsch’s celebrations, while some criticised Jurgen Klopp over his excuse for losing…

@madebyfrankie: The Jesse Marsch finger snap celebration is so cringe my face wants to swallow itself every time I’ve had to see it on the TL.

@pete316: One cringey bastard that Marsch but I’m all for it today. That celebration 😂

@Komps4: Jesse Marsch’s celebration. Hook it right into my veins 💉💉💉

@karlthomas85: Someone turn that Marsch celebration into a fucking meme! #LUFC #MOT

@boss_martino: That celebration from Jesse Marsch though. I love it 😅

@_Dave_Smith: I might have to do this if my u8s team win this morning now 😅

@SY1875: I’m living for that Jesse Marsch celebration. That was pure Barclays. Straight into the vault for Premier League Years in 10 years time

@RITGK: Marsch with the Stephen Warnock esque celebration😭 #lufc

@esetfcb: Nah this Jesse Marsch celebration in front of Klopp 😭

@deffanaverin: Stop with the excuses and say it as it is. The tactics are failing and the players are underperforming

@russ_wait: It’s the same for everyone. Our players look frazzled physically and mentally. The squad has gone stale. Always strengthen when you are strong we’ve tried to roll the dice with the same players for too long and now we need 5 first team regulars not two. Investment needed ASAP.

@Ddoris77: City, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal & United all play every 3 or 4 days. Do you hear them moaning like this? Maybe it’s because they invested in their squads, remember that this manager said we didn’t need anyone.

@infiniteamg: We all knew this was going to be a long hard season, but it seems you have not done your home work and that means back of the class. Another poor excuse by Klopp

@AlanFRob42: Sorry Jurgen, brutal season for lots of teams mainly due to a bloody World Cup slap bang in the middle of it to line FIFA’s pockets, but injuries are part of the game pure & simple and lack of depth and tactical nous are mistakes from within sadly

@lfcpassion_3: Just needs to shut up with excuses

@nobodhee: Liverpool aren’t the only ones playing every 3 days.

@safc_king: Yes they’re the only team playing in this world cup season after all. You just KNEW he’d drag this one out. Maybe he needs to learn how to manage his team better through these periods, seeing as he pulls this excuse out over and over?

@richmasonpl: All of the teams in European Competitions have played nearly the same amount of games this season, with the same size or smaller squads.

@nickbriggs72: No he doesn’t just an excuse, he wants to manage a big club in Europe then he as to deal with that, all teams have injuries, but most clubs don’t have a squad like Liverpool

@GaryMarriott73: Moan moan moan. Championship sides play three games a week regular with injuries. Give credit where credits due and get on with it. If your that bothered drop out if Europe…..oh wait, we will loose all that money 🤣🤣🤣

@j4yc3e: if you want to be the best you have to play all the games in all the competitions, simple. liverpool have enough money to bolster their squad depth and rotate players, this guy is constantly looking for excuses to deflect away from the real issue…an aging squad on its last legs

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