Jurgen Klopp admits he has no explanation for Alisson’s blunders against Manchester City.
Alisson made two uncharacteristically poor attempted clearances that led to goals for the visitors in their emphatic 4-1 win over Liverpool on Sunday.
The Brazil international’s first error gifted the ball to Phil Foden, who provided an assist for Ilkay Gundogan, who fired Pep Guardiola’s side into a 2-1 lead.
His second allowed Bernardo Silva to tee up Raheem Sterling for a far-post header which effectively killed off his old club’s Premier League title defence.
And Klopp conceded that he cannot fathom what happened with his usually reliable goalkeeper during that three-minute period in the second half.
“I spoke to him a few seconds ago and he’s obviously very disappointed,” said the Liverpool manager.
“He was like: ‘Not today, not today’. I said to him that’s the problem with mistakes, you cannot decide when you make them.
“The only thing you can do is learn from them and he will. He will make sure it never happens to him again. Tonight it was decisive, but that’s OK.
“He saved our lives I don’t know how often. He’s an absolutely world-class goalie. Tonight some things went a little bit wrong and we have to take that.”
He added: “I said to him: ‘We have stands – you can shoot the ball there’. It’s a mistake, but different things came together.
“In the first half, Ali played exceptional football and was really calm on the ball, passed it in small spaces, exactly what we wanted him to do.
“Then in the beginning of the second half he didn’t do that.
“He didn’t see the offers because we didn’t make them in the right way, and then the problem is that he doesn’t shoot the ball somewhere far away from the danger spots.
“I can’t help him through tonight but tomorrow he will be OK and we will go again.”