WATFORD: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insisted the title is not won yet after his side were beaten for the first time in 45 games in the Premier League as Watford thrashed the European champions on Saturday.
Klopp's men still enjoy a 22-point lead at the top of the table and need a maximum of four wins from their remaining 10 games to secure a first league title for 30 years. "What the boys did so far is exceptional but it is not over," said Klopp.
"We did not expect the number of games we won. It was never easy and it will never be easy, so now let's carry on."
Klopp has long been an advocate of a winter break amid the grueling English campaign to give his players a chance to rest and recuperate.
But a two-week break earlier this month appears to have disrupted the Reds' rhythm.
"Shape, a form is not something we can take for granted. We fought against each every feeling in the body. We fought against everything and that's why we have that amount of points," added Klopp. "The biggest surprise for me is that Watford is fighting to stay in the league. Now is the moment when everybody is fighting like crazy. We don't think it is the biggest catastrophe in world football. We feel the defeat really and now we have the chance to show the reaction again." Agencies