Klopp after Liverpool draw with Brighton: "We lost momentum."

Klopp not pleased with Liverpool against Brighton. [Getty]

Jurgen Klopp was not pleased with how his Liverpool side threw away a two-goal lead against Brighton to drop three points off the top of the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.

Liverpool took the lead early in the game throughout Jordan Henderson and Sadio Mane doubled the lead in the 24th minute, but the Reds failed to see out the victory as goals from Enock Mwepu and Leandro Trossard on either side of half-time earned Brighton a draw.

After both teams shared the spoils, Klopp was full of praise for the Seagulls' boss Graham Potter, who has now avoided defeat in the last three league games against the Anfield club.

The German also pointed his finger to his own team for making it easy for the opposing side, especially in a second half where they seldom tested Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez.

Klopp said: "It looked like bit by bit by bit we lost another player, body-language-wise. Then all of a sudden it wasn't there anymore. In the first half, we were playing incredible passes between the lines, which was exactly what we needed, but in the second half, I can't remember a lot.

"We lost momentum, that was obvious, but if you only play wide you cannot make a real difference given how they defend. We had to attack through the centre, and we didn't.

"They are definitely underestimated, not from us but in general. They have incredible technical players. When they play wide, the next pass maybe goes in the centre, and the first touch is incredible. You watch it like, 'Wow!'.

"The second goal they scored was a well-played goal, but we could have defended it better. They deserved the point, and that's it."

Klopp also felt his side had the ability to ram Brighton over at Anfield before the first of the Seagulls equalised.

The 54-year-old told Sky Sports: "Brighton are incredibly good. It's a day when we could have smashed them, but we didn't. The disallowed goal decisions were incredible - Sadio's goal was pretty much my favourite one since I've been here. It was insane.

"Then they score their goal, which was probably a cross, but we should have defended the half-spaces better, and then it's game on. The best way to defend against them is to have the ball, and then we didn't have enough of it.

"We didn't play football anymore, we should've played more between the lines, and attacked the centre, which we didn't do. They deserved a point, we didn't lose, but it feels like even with the quality of our opponent."

On Naby Keita, who was forced off before half-time and replaced by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Klopp said: "He showed me the hamstring and people told me it is hamstring, I cannot say more."

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