By winning the match against the Reds, Atalanta won 3-0 away from home to qualify for the second leg at home.
After the match, Klopp told reporters: It is easy for Atalanta to cause disruption in many groups with the way they defend.
Maybe I’m wrong, yet I do not the conditions where they ruled us, it is just that they won the ball and they went from there, so it is a smart idea.
It takes a lot of tactics to do what they did. They make marks all over the field, Ederson rushes anyone, Curtis (Jones) in our own area, things like that.
That’s why they won the game, because in those moments you just need to win the ball.
Human marking is awkward when you’re not at the top of your game. That’s why so many groups are betting there again. But if you play, if you are in a worse mood than us tonight, you can cause huge problems, but we didn’t. So that’s the reason.
They defended us and we couldn’t play long enough, so we suffered because of the way they played, the way they defended. “That’s largely the explanation, that’s the only point. “