First-half goals from Richard Stearman and Andreas Weimann rendered Divock Origi’s late strike meaningless and sent the Reds out of the competition at the fourth-round stage.
Here is what Klopp had to say after the final whistle at Anfield…
On how disappointing the result is…
Very, again. Cup games like this are always difficult [and] in our situation, after losing two games, not full of confidence, not flying through the league. We made a lot of changes, of course, most of them because we couldn’t do it differently, but a few because we wanted [to].