Jurgen Klopp last night insisted Liverpool will still qualify for the knock-out stages despite dropping another two points in the Champions League.
Liverpool’s Fab Four strike force wasted a string of chances and they had to settle for a point in Group E even though they dominated Spartak Moscow.
Philippe Coutinho was on target while Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah could not secure victory as they also dropped points in their opener with Sevilla.
Liverpool boss Klopp said: “We are strong enough to qualify. The door is open but we have to walk through. We can see a bit of light. We have to stay cool, work hard and we will be all right.
“We are not the most lucky team in world football but we did very well in creating chances against a defensive oriented team. We could have created more chances that is the crazy thing.
“The only thing is to go through the group and that is still possible for us we would have won both games but didn’t and that is our fault. There were a lot of good things it was not a good result.
“It is a big question why we did not win. We were unlucky, there were good saves from both goalkeepers and wrong decisions at the decisive moment. That is how football is the only way you can change it is to do it again and do it again.
“It is good when you have all these players but it is not lining up the players they all need rhythm and it was a very intense game and it is not about the names it is about how we perform.
“In some moments we performed very well in other moments not we didn’t perform very well. We did not take our chances.”
Klopp was unhappy with Spartak’s opener as he claimed Coutinho did not deserve to be punished for a foul before Fernando’s free kick. “It was not a free kick, it was a great free kick, but it was not a foul,” said Klopp.
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson said: “It's disappointing. We controlled the game from start to finish, and we should have won the game comfortably. We will be disappointed going home.
“On another day it could have been three or four nil to us. We defended well for the majority of the game but we have to finish teams and be more ruthless."