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Jurgen Klopp urged Liverpool fans to keep the faith with his struggling side - as he admitted he would have headed to the Anfield exits early on Saturday.

The 2-1 defeat to Wolves was Liverpool’s third in a week at home as they crashed out of the FA Cup to follow defeat in the EFL Cup semi-final to Southampton and a damaging Premier League loss to Swansea.

Klopp insisted he still had a “very good “ squad despite seven days which have dealt serious blows to the season’s ambitions and left many fans questioning the depth of quality available to the Liverpool manager, particularly given the failure to strengthen in the January window.

Many streamed to the exits a little early on Saturday, despite Divock Origi’s late strike offering hopes of salvaging an ill-deserved replay from the tie.

Klopp said: “I’m not worried about it. I cannot be new every day. I would have left - it was a bad game. It’s not that I think people have to stay and accept everything. It was not good enough. It was a deserved win for Wolverhampton. But to make a generally thing of it?

“I take it as a game, unfortunately it’s three games now, but I take it as a game and not more.

“I know we need positive energy for the next games and it’s still deserved because the main part of the season was still really, really good. Only nobody can remember any more.”

I cannot be new every day

Klopp rejected suggestions his team was now in crisis but agreed that a somewhat different mood had descended on the club in the last few weeks.

“I don’t think it’s a moment where I should talk about the whole season, it’s enough to think about this game. What people think I can have no influence on. I know it’s not today, not yesterday - it’s already a few weeks since we didn’t fly any more.

“It’s like everybody is still reminded on difficult times on the past. You (the press), all the people around. Who thought or dreamt it would be always going like against Hull or against them or them? It’s a difficult situation.

“This is a very good squad even when everybody is thinking ‘oh my God’. I am still quite a good manager even though we just lost the last three games. It doesn’t change but all the mood round changes.

“I cannot be new every day, I cannot be I don’t know what every day. We need to stay on track, all of us, especially in moments like this.

“So what’s the basis for striking back? It’s faith. Everyone’s asking me is faith not a little bit too much? But it’s the base. We are living, we’re not 24 hours at the training ground. We have private lives, we go shopping, have a coffee, whatever, of course that's different.

“But that’s not a problem. It’s all about football and we can change it.

“It didn’t look like it (against Wolves). But the game - and it’s the only good thing about this game - it’s over. And there’s another one.”

Liverpool must recover quickly from a dreadful week as Premier League leaders Chelsea arrive on Tuesday night for a fixture which just weeks ago supporters had hoped could put Klopp’s men right into the title mix. Instead even a victory would leave them still seven points in arrears.

A defeat, on the other hand, would equal a record stretching back almost a century to December 1923, for the last time Liverpool lost four games in a row at Anfield.

Klopp said: “I didn’t know that it had never happened so that makes the pressure probably even higher but that’s not important either. It’s about winning football games and we have the chance again.

“Everything is still okay, but not flying. If you all look and feel like you look and feel in this moment constantly it makes life not better.

“That’s the impression of this game, I’ve got absolutely nothing good to say about this game, It’s over and now we can recover. obviously necessary for all of us mental-wise. Let’s go for the next game.”

Liverpool will have to decide whether to play Sadio Mane after the winger’s Senegal team were knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations at the quarter-final stage on Saturday night.

Mane played 120 minutes in the defeat to Cameroon and missed the decisive penalty in the subsequent shoot-out.