Jurgen Klopp has revealed how a scrapped training session at Melwood contributed to Liverpool's miserable defeat to Swansea City.

The Reds' 18-game unbeaten run was ended by the Premier League's bottom club this week and the manager says preparations for the trip to the Liberty Stadium were far from ideal.

With a number of key players hampered by illness, Klopp had to ditch a planned session which was going to focus on how best to break down Swansea's backline.

"It's not an excuse, it's the truth," Klopp said.

"During the week because of illness and little issues here and there was one session we could not do that we usually do - tactical, offensive, where we stand...

"We couldn't do it and I had to accept that. We spoke about it and we needed to speak about it again at half-time.

"That was what made me really angry because I thought: 'Come on! It's clear we have to do that, we've done it plenty of times and we have to do it again.' That was my problem after that game.

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"We had a very average game from us, but we had I would say three big ones (chances). Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, and then Adam (Lallana) at the end.

“Do we score in situations like that? Yes really often. We had chances but not enough of them and in the other parts of the game we were not like we wanted to be.

"That was more my problem after the game. 'Precisioning' was not good. We had lost it."