Jurgen Klopp has hit back at suggestions that there's something “missing” from his Liverpool side as he insisted: “If people cannot enjoy our football then I really can't help them.”

The midweek defeat to Paris Saint-Germain reignited concerns about a lack of creativity from midfield.

Liverpool mustered a combined total of just five shots on target and didn't score a single goal from open play in their three Champions League away group games.

But with the Reds unbeaten domestically and enjoying their best start to a top-flight season since 1990 Klopp says the criticism is unfair ahead of Sunday's Merseyside derby at Anfield.

“Yes, in specific games we can say that (the midfield didn't link to the attack sufficiently), but to be honest for me it is quite strange,” Klopp said.

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“When everything is brilliant and we score goals you always ask about defending and how can we fix that?

“We fixed that kind of and it always happens that the first step is it costs you a bit of fluency and creativity. That is a completely normal thing. If someone would think about it for one second they would see it is clear, it is logical.

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“Now, when we fix that, I can't say in the first moment to the boys: 'But that's not enough offensively.' That would be crazy. We still have to develop.

“We have the players for it. We have to win football games. Really, with all the things I saw in this country football-wise, if people cannot enjoy our football then I really can't help them.

“There were a few games last season, when we were really flying and the opponent collapsed like Watford here, then we had the big games like Roma and Man City, where were these games in the league?

“But I get constantly confronted with the question – something is missing. What's that? Of course it could be better but it is not because of one player. We are creative. I don't know how many goals we've scored but we've had many more chances. Creating is not a problem. You could say finishing is the problem, whatever you want.

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“In the end, in the games we won we were always the better side. That's pretty rare. Not one lucky game when it was 'wow, how did that happen?'

“I get that you have to write about things, no problem, but write it and don't ask me about it because I'm not interested about it, I can't answer it. I don't tell my boys to do one thing and then tell them publicly to do another thing.”

Klopp reverted back to a midfield trio of Jordan Henderson, Gini Wijnaldum and James Milner in Paris.

Summer signings Naby Keita and Fabinho were both overlooked with Liverpool's lack of cutting edge providing a reminder of how much they have missed Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain since he suffered a serious knee injury back in April.

“Bringing one player in would change everything? That is bull**** and you all know that. One player doesn't change everything,” Klopp said.

“Oxlade-Chamberlain would have changed that game? I love this boy to bits but would he have changed this game?

“We could have changed the game had we started differently. Then 2-0 wouldn't have happened and the pressure on them would have been even bigger. That was the problem of the game, not being creative or whatever.”

Having analysed the game closely, Klopp believes Liverpool's performance at the Parc des Princes was unfairly judged in some quarters. He's adamant that the Reds could hold their heads high after recovering from a wretched start.

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“PSG are one of the best teams in the world. They didn't look like it because we caused them a lot of problems,” he said.

“The two goals they scored were good play from individual quality and pressure. They did it.

“After that, they had counter attacks and defended better than they have in all games for the last five or six years. And with more passion. They were high-fiving after winning a challenge against Mo (Salah) and stuff like that.

“We had to chase the game and it is not that easy then to be creative. If Barcelona plays in that game they are not creative. We had to fight back. It was not a game for easy football.

“You try to do it but tell me one game in the past where you saw a team that was 2-0 down against an opponent with the quality of Paris and the opponent struck back and won 7-2? It will never happen.

“The start of the game was not good. I didn't like it, that's the truth. I told the boys the intensity level was not how I wanted it to be but after that we were in the game.

“Pressing was much better, counter pressing was really good, formation was really good, being compact was really good and we won balls back like crazy. The people there were whistling.

“It was not a brilliant game but it was a big fight and we lost it 2-1. And after that you ask me about being creative in midfield?”

Much of the discussion around that central area concerns Keita and Fabinho. When you spend £95million on two midfielders questions are bound to be asked when they don't play regularly.

“I get that,” Klopp said.

Keita, who was out for a month with a hamstring problem, hasn't started a Premier League game since mid-September, while Fabinho has been on the bench since the international break.

With Henderson suspended, opportunity could knock for at least one of them against Everton. Klopp reiterated his belief that both new boys will be a success at Anfield in the long-term.

“Same time next year we will all talk Naby and Fabinho like we talked last year about Oxlade,” he added.

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“In the beginning, it was not there and we always asked: 'What about Oxlade-Chamberlain?'

“Maybe you did not ask that much because nobody expected that much, they thought he was too expensive, then he came back and he was ready. I get it, 100%. But that's really not our problem."