LIVERPOOL, England -- Jurgen Klopp is confident that his Liverpool team will be able to break down Hull City on the weekend and has called upon the Anfield crowd to help them in doing so.
Liverpool have managed to earn seven points this campaign against Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, but fell 2-0 to newly promoted Burnley in the second fixture of the Premier League season.
The defeat at Turf Moor raised concerns about Klopp's side inability to beat teams who sit deep in an effort to frustrate their opponent, but the Reds boss insisted that the team are hungry for results in every game and do not approach encounters with sides further down the Premier League table any differently.
Klopp: "We feel good, we feel strong. We need to be angry against Hull - they want our points." pic.twitter.com/VDd2renOMZ
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"They want our points. That makes me angry actually!" Klopp told a news conference at Melwood on Thursday morning. "That's quite easy in football.
"We are able to create chances against each team. We did it [against Burnley], maybe we didn't score. So we have to think why so many people think we have big problems against -- how you call it? -- bus-parking [teams]. I'm not sure how we do this to be honest.
"But I saw not a lot of space against Chelsea. I cannot remember a lot of space against Tottenham -- they were with 10 men behind the ball when we had the ball. We have to find solutions.
"We are in a good moment, and we would make it less good if we start thinking now, 'but Hull is coming.' We should not care about the name of the opponent, and we didn't care about it before we played Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal -- not the name, not the players -- only focusing on the style of play, what we have to do where, are our opportunities, where is the space we can create.
"We don't think, 'okay, what's the name? For them only 50 percent of preparation time.' No! We are 100 percent aware of the difficulties we can have in this game. For the players and us, it's very important to learn to take it as it is.
"I can 100 percent guarantee that it's not about the attitude of the players. It's not they think 'why should we put everything in this game?' Let's try to create an atmosphere where everybody is completely in the performance, in the game, concentrated and is happy about creating moments, chances."
Liverpool play just their second home game of the season when they welcome Hull to Anfield on Saturday.
Klopp wants the spectators inside Anfield to produce a "special" atmosphere that helps the players stay patient if things are not going to plan early on.
"I think we can all improve -- the team, coaches, manager and the crowd because it is all about expectation," Klopp added. "For example, if you create a chance against Chelsea it's a positive and if you miss it then it's still a positive because it showed we know the way to create chances.
"I don't want to say anything about Hull because we first have to play them, but if we create a chance against Burnley and you miss it, it's not a positive -- it's a negative for everybody. It feels like 'oh my God, it should have been a goal.' That's what we have to learn.
"You have to take the games as they are. We don't have to value the opponent before the game. We have to take the games as they are as no football game is easy.
"Then the question is: Is it possible to create a special atmosphere at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon at Anfield? More special than in each other game, is it possible? I would say 'yes,' so let's try it.
"The atmosphere is two things that's very important -- it's the crowd and the team. I can do a lot to bring us in the right mood, but I really would love to see that everybody goes with the right expectation to the game and is not disappointed when we miss a chance in the first 10 minutes."