False start to the new year: Team manager Jürgen Klopp has a relationship with top English football club FC Liverpool missed the fifth league win in a row. The “Reds” lost at FC Brentford with 1:3 (0:2).
Newcomer and World Cup discovery Cody Gakpo was still not available. Ibrahima Konate (19.) own goal after a corner kick, Yoane Wissa (42.) and brian Mbeumo (84th) scored the goals for the “bees“.
Klopp’s team was still well served at half-time: two more goals from Wissa (27th and 40th) were only disallowed after video evidence. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (50.) headed after a cross from Trent Alexander Arnold for a hit.
Gakpo’s work permit problems
Liverpool is behind the sporting expectations. In the premier league the club is still in sixth place, a win would have taken the leap over Tottenham Hotspur means to the international places. Brentford, with Hamburg-born Vitaly Janelt in the starting XI, initially climbed three places and sorted themselves in behind Liverpool.
Gakpo has not been called up by Klopp after the Dutchman was recently banned from training with the team due to work permit issues. Gakpo was hotly courted on the transfer market after his strong performances at the World Cup in Qatar. Liverpool had prevailed against the European club elite in poker for the 23-year-old from PSV Eindhoven.