Jurgen Klopp dismissed the idea Liverpool are missing the ‘one player’ that could solve their defensive problems as carelessness cost them Champions League points.

The name Virgil van Dijk continues to shadow Liverpool every time they concede, and after a dominant attacking performance against Sevilla was again undermined by mistakes at the back, Klopp faced a familiar lament about his failure to sign a new centre-back.

But the Liverpool manager says the solution is in collective action rather than craving any individual.

“I know here a lot of people were looking for this, at the defence, that we didn't sign this and that and all that stuff,” said Klopp following the 2-2 draw.

“If these problems would have been sorted with one player, you can imagine we'd put all our money in and say 'let's do this'. It's not about this.

“It's of course concentration, it's nothing else in this situation. We started the game good, kind of dominant, played football, had immediately good moments and they score from pretty much their first offensive situation.

“That's a mixture of being unlucky and being a little bit 'through the wind' as we say in Germany.