On whether losing games like this ‘changes his expectations’ for the season as a whole…
No. My expectations have changed throughout the season because I expected more from us than where we are fighting for now. But it’s another setback and we didn’t help ourselves with this result, not at all. But there are still eight [Premier League] games to play so we are coming closer and closer to the end and then dropping points in a game where it’s absolutely not necessary if you look at the run of play… it wasn’t that we played so great, I’m not saying that, but if we play this game in this fashion 10 times I don’t think we will lose 10 times.
It’s far from sure that we win every time because therefore we were not good enough. If we don’t want to rely on a deflected shot, we need to do better, we have to play better, but we’ve had enough chances to win the game. But credit to Wolves as well, they fought from the first second until the end and got, maybe, a little bit of luck, what they deserved if you look at how much they put in throughout the whole game.
On whether Wolves’ winner was down to bad luck or whether Liverpool ‘did anything wrong’ in the lead-up to it…
If I remember it correctly, I think we won the ball back with Curtis Jones. He played it back to Ali [Alisson Becker], who then cleared it somewhere 30, 35 yards away from our goal, I think. And, I don’t know the name of the player who took the ball, but I think he also dribbled forward and scored the goal. What do we do wrong in that situation? Yeah, maybe, if we could do it one more time over maybe Curtis clears the ball himself, Ali kicks it to the side instead of through the middle.
You can always do things different but a deflected shot [off Joe Gomez], I have to see how he puts his body in front of the ball and if he could do anything about that or not, or it was just bad luck. But it’s not the first time a ball goes in from a deflected shot. I think it was Sunderland at home as well when it happened.