Ajax boss Alfred Schreuder believes Nottingham Forest could have lost "4-1 or 5-1" to Liverpool at the weekend.
Schreuder, whose team face Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday evening, said defeat to Forest does not make Jurgen Klopp's team more vulnerable than they have been in recent years.
When asked about Liverpool in his pre-match press conference ahead of the team's Champions League clash, Schreuder was quick to comment on Forest's victory.
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“I think they are still a very good team, a top team, and we saw also the reaction after the defeat in the Champions League," he said. “I think if you see them in the last few games, against Rangers and against City, they showed top form and top quality. Of course they lost to Nottingham Forest, but could also have won, 4-1 or 5-1.”
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp implied the same point when speaking to reporters at the City Ground after the match. He blamed his own team for failing to take a number of free chances that were given to them at set-pieces. He suggested his team could have scored a handful of goals against Forest, leading to a totally different result.
When it was suggested to him that Forest should get credit for their performance, Klopp said: "It’s Premier League and they’re all good, all fight, but giving teams six clear chances, I’m not sure where I should put praise on.
"They’re a great team, Steve's a fantastic manager. For us, we have to win here - done - but we didn’t. Credit to Nottingham, it was us against the goalkeeper, us against ourselves and not us against Nottingham Forest, nobody defended Bobby, Virg, we didn’t use it."
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