Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp accepted their lack of goal threat failed to put enough pressure on Atalanta to help turn their Europa League quarter-final back in their favour.

Mohamed Salah’s seventh-minute penalty had raised hopes of a Barcelona 2019-style comeback but the Egypt international missed a relatively straightforward lob to make it 2-0 towards the end of the first half and they faded badly after the break as they exited the competition 3-1 on aggregate.

Anyway, Klopp affirmed that he is not worried about the 31-year-old player’s performance. The German strategist said: “I’m not particularly concerned. That’s what strikers do. That’s how it is. We have to go through it, he has to go through it,” added Klopp.

“He is one of the most experienced players in the squad. That’s pretty much everything.

“It’s not that Mo didn’t miss chances before in his life, that’s part of the game. The penalty was super convincing, a super penalty then the next chance that was unlucky, but it’s not the first time has had missed chances like that.

“I won’t make a big story of it. I’m not particularly concerned.”

Mohamed Salah has scored 29 goals for club and country this season. That’s not a bad statistic, but not enough compared to the level of the Egyptian star. He lacks explosiveness and efficiency compared to his peak.

Salah has looked well short of his clinical best since returning from almost two months out with a hamstring problem.

Even though he has scored six in 11 game since he came back two of those have been penalties and he is squandering more chances he would normally be expected to take.