However, Klopp produced fighting talk after full-time, insisting that Liverpool would travel to the Bernabeu knowing they have time to complete a remarkable turnaround.

An audibly disheartened Klopp told BT Sport: "We will go there. We will play a football game. It's not the best start and the best basis for it. We didn't create that tonight.

"Obviously, everyone saw tonight how good they are on the counter-attack if we have to score goals there.

"In their own stadium, each single counter-attack can be the decider. So it will be a massive challenge, but there's time.

"Until then, we have to play in the Premier League. We have to recover and make sure we take the right things from this game, and the rest we have to learn from as well."

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