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Jurgen Klopp admits set piece defending is not Liverpool’s “best football skill” but insists his team are working hard on it after they conceded yet again from a dead ball situation against Everton on Saturday.

While the 228th Merseysise derby was a generally very positive experience for those in red, Matthew Pennington’s first half equaliser for the Blues once again highlighted an ongoing deficiency within Klopp’s squad.

When Leighton Baines’ corner was flicked on by Phil Jagileka, a partial block by Dejan Lovren was seized on by Pennington to slot home in front of a frustrated Kop.

Set piece failures have become all too familiar to Liverpool fans and Klopp recognises that his team must improve in that area.

As well as the goal, a curling free-kick early in the second half almost saw Ashley Williams turn the ball back for advancing blue shirts in front of goal but Simon Mignolet managed to cut it out. Another crossed ball found Mason Holgate dangerously free in the box only for him to head well over.

Klopp said: “It is still a question for us to find a real answer for.

“You see it. Before they got the corner from which Pennington scored, they actually had a free-kick. A small one which was quickly taken, bam, then the cross, then the corner, then the goal – so two set pieces if you want.

“The organisation was okay, but someone blocked Lucas. One step, it is too quick and then Joel couldn’t make this step because it became his space. At the end it was a good set piece.

“The other one, the free kick to the back post, is completely different. You can have no organisation for this because you have to run there, you cannot wait there.

“It was a good ball, they knew what they wanted to do and we had this situation again.”

Klopp believes not only should Liverpool be defending set pieces better but should be scoring more from their own deliveries.

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“We have a lot of time when we are close from offensive set pieces but we don’t score enough maybe, but we scored another three goals.

“You can really be sure we are on this and really working on this with a lot of different things, but obviously it is not our best skill of all the football skills.”