Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp demands cool heads after more defensive woes in West Ham draw

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp bemoaned his side’s defending and lack of composure after they fell behind in the Premier League title race with a 2-2 draw at home to struggling West Ham.

Divock Origi scored for the fourth consecutive match after Darren Randolph’s blunder to save a point for frail Liverpool, who sit third, six points behind leaders Chelsea.

Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius last week gifted Bournemouth a winner and Klopp’s side – so good going forward and top of the table last month – are being regularly undermined by their defensive failings.

Karius’ positioning on Sunday for West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet’s equaliser, which cancelled out Adam Lallana’s opener, was questionable.

Michail Antonio then capitalised on a mistake by Joel Matip to put the visitors 2-1 up before Origi’s fortuitous 48th-minute leveller.

Klopp was hardly convincing in his defence of the German stopper Karius, 23, saying merely that he had “no idea” about whether his summer signing was at fault for the Payet free-kick strike because he had only seen it once.