As their European journey under Klopp came to an end, the German reflected on this contest.
He stated post-game: I loved the way we started the game. We didn't lose the tie tonight, we lost it at home. That is why we have to and it's very easy to congratulate Atalanta because they deserved to go through.
When you win a tie against us 3-1, especially in this way, you deserve to go through, absolutely. But I loved our game anyway, especially the start. I loved the commitment and the desire, the power we developed in this game, but it was clear we better score from time to time to interrupt these kind of things otherwise it could be tricky to keep that over 90 minutes.
How it always is, a second goal would have helped a little bit, it would have been a decisive thing because you saw Atalanta started very strong, confident, but with the few situations we had I think we gave them some concerns. They realized then as well it would not be easy and that's the game we gave them, so I am really fine with that.
Disappointed that we did not go through but not frustrated or angry or something like that. Now we can focus on the league and that's what we will do.
We have a few days to recover, we will do that, and then will travel the day after tomorrow to London and will play Fulham, which will be tricky but we will give our absolute all.
That's our competition now. I saw a good reaction from my side, we had not a great week last week obviously. This, if we want, was the start for the rest of the season with a good result and a good performance and that's how we see it."