Friday 3 February 2017 11:30, UK
Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool know how to handle "weaker" teams as they prepare to take on struggling Hull City on Saturday.
The Reds head to Humberside having lost only three times in the Premier League this season, with 10th placed Burnley the highest in the top division to have beaten Klopp's men.
Indeed, the German has only been on the losing side on one occasion against the rest of his top-six rivals in 15 attempts since his arrival midway through the 2015-16 season.
But Klopp says the defeats, the other two coming against Bournemouth and Swansea, are merely blips and not a symptom of Liverpool being unable to break down teams determined to defend at all costs.
"We won a lot of games against these kind of teams. We lost three against those teams that you would call 'weaker'," Klopp said.
"If you want to pick out these three games then I think Burnley was pretty special, very early (in the season), it's almost not allowed to put it in that bunch of games.
"Bournemouth was very special: we did really well and I don't know what happened there - we gave it away but we did everything nearly perfect until a specific point.
"Even Swansea was not good but it was not that we had no chances.
"Even when you are a perfect side, which we are not, then obviously you will lose football games, that's why nobody wins 100 per cent of games in a season.
"But I think we've proved often enough that we know the way to do it, the problem is that it not always works.
"We are working with human beings and things like this happen but for me the most important thing is that we know how to play them - now we have to show it all the time."
