can cope with the loss of injured forward Sadio
Mane, who will miss the rest of the Premier League
season.
Mane will sit out the remainder of the campaign
due to a knee injury, which requires surgery
following an awkward tangle with Leighton Baines
during last week's Merseyside derby victory over
Everton.
The news has come as a blow to Liverpool's top-
four hopes, having watched Mane scored 13 goals
and add five assists in 27 appearances.
However, Klopp believes Liverpool have shown
they are capable of performing in the Senegal
international's absence – pointing to the chances
created without Mane in the 2-2 draw with
Bournemouth.
"I know everyone was talking before about how we
miss Sadio Mane and we do miss Sadio Mane but
he doesn't help us too much in defending and we
created enough chances to have scored more,"
Klopp said ahead of Saturday's trip to Stoke City.
"Again, around the second goal, Sadio would not
have been too much involved in defending so the
influence of missing Sadio was not too big.
"That's why it felt like it did at the end. It could
have been good. It could have been the perfect
game in terms of the result, a bad start, coming
back at this stage of the season with a sick Phil
[Coutinho] and a tired Roberto [Firminio], all that
stuff.
"It could have been the perfect result but
unfortunately between perfect and difficult to
accept – sometimes it is only a second. That's
how it was in this game."
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