Jurgen Klopp reacts after defeat to Atalanta. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA
Jurgen Klopp reacts after defeat to Atalanta. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA
Here, we look at how the Serie A side's 3-0 romp compares to Klopp's worst games with the club.
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Gianluca Scamacca's double and Mario Pasalic's late strike gave Atalanta a 3-0 win in the first leg of their quarter-final, denting Klopp's bid to add an eighth different trophy to his Anfield honours roll and end his reign with a showpiece final in Dublin.
Only Manchester City and Aston Villa have ever enjoyed bigger winning margins against Klopp's Liverpool, across his 483 games since taking charge in October 2015.
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Villa beat a much-changed Liverpool side 5-0 in the Carabao Cup in December 2019 - a defence of Ki-Jana Hoever, Tony Gallacher, Sepp van den Berg and Morgan Boyes powerless to prevent Jonathan Kodjia scoring his only two goals of that season.
More memorably, Ollie Watkins' hat-trick and a Jack Grealish brace set up a 7-2 league triumph against Klopp's defending champions in October 2020.
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Photo: FIle
The common thread between those four hammerings is that they all took place away from Anfield, meaning Gian Piero Gasperini's side inflicted a record-equalling home defeat on Klopp with Liverpool.
It is the 11th time his side have lost by three goals - a sixth 3-0, to go with four 4-1s and a 5-2 - but only the third at home.
City triumphed 4-1 in 2021, Ilkay Gundogan scoring twice, while last season's Champions League challenge was effectively ended by that 5-2 defeat in the first leg of their last-16 tie against Real Madrid. Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah gave Liverpool an early 2-0 lead but Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema scored twice apiece in Real's emphatic comeback.
City are also among the teams to inflict three-goal away defeats on Klopp's side, a list that curiously includes Watford on two separate occasions along with Tottenham, Brighton and Wolves in the Premier League and Barcelona and Napoli in the Champions League.
Liverpool's heaviest ever home defeat is only 6-0, against Sunderland in the First Division in April 1930.