Clopp's words after losing 7:2 by Aston Villa

German technician Aston Villa praised the way they prepared the match until he took the blame for losing him to his players.

I saw it. So it's easy to believe because I was here. First of all, you have to say that Aston Villa played very well. They were very physical, very smart and very direct, we weren't”, he said when asked about the deep score 7:2.

We had big chances which we didn't concreteize, but when you accept seven goals I'm not sure you could say it would have been 7-7. We've obviously made a lot of mistakes. It started with the first goal and we're done with big mistakes”.

“We have lost cannons in a wrong area and are not properly protected. It looked like we lost the fight after it went to 1-0. It's not an excuse. Normally you can be 1-0 and do the things you want. We created but we didn't defend ourselves properly, so every ball we lost was an anti-attack”.

That's why we accepted so many goals. It's not a coincidence because it means they blocked us very well. No one should blame us but me and us”, he said.