Jurgen Klopp referenced Cristiano Ronaldo's struggles for Manchester United and Portugal this season as he also addressed Liverpool's loss of form.
Ronaldo has endured a difficult start to the campaign, with the 37-year-old starting on just three occasions for Erik ten Hag's side. The veteran frontman has only scored one goal for United, which came from the spot against Sheriff in the Europa League before the international break.
Meanwhile, Liverpool currently sit ninth in the Premier League table having won just two of their opening seven league fixtures.
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It has not been the start to the new season that Ronaldo will have been hoping for, especially after he expressed his desire to leave Old Trafford in the summer. The Portugal international appears to be struggling for confidence on the pitch, and Liverpool boss Klopp said that it is perfectly normal for players and teams to experiences drops in form.
"People ask 'how can it happen that these players are not full of confidence? Do you think Cristiano Ronaldo in this moment is on top of his confidence level? You could say for ages he was the best player in the world and now it's not going his way and it's not exactly the same. That happens to all of us," said Klopp.
"These kind of things are really important to all of us and we have to work for it, you have to do and to do and to take the little things to take a step in the right direction and then in the moment when you are really ready for the moment when it's back."
He added: "In individual sports, I don't know exactly, but maybe you can fight yourself through it. In a team sport, we all have to do it together and that makes it a bit more complicated."
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