Jurgen Klopp admitted his suggestion that Liverpool could “play free football again” after losing to Watford sent the wrong message.
Liverpool had their 44-game unbeaten run and 18-match win sequence ended by Watford on Saturday.
The Reds were well-beaten at Vicarage Road as their attempts at breaking a number of records went up in flames.
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Klopp was almost relieved after the game, stating that his squad “can play free football again” without being inhibited by chasing statistics or history.
But the German went back on those comments when previewing the FA Cup game with Chelsea on Monday.
“It is a bit difficult. I don’t know what I said 100 per cent after the game,” he said.
“I go in the dressing room then I go out and people confront me, like always, with questions which I didn’t think about until a second before.
“I say the things I say. If I say from now that we can play free football again, that would mean I felt we couldn’t do that before. I didn’t feel that, to be honest.
“Would we have loved to have won game number 19? Yes. Absolutely. But then you don’t win it and we know how difficult it is.
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“We don’t have to make it bigger. We lost a football game.
“Whenever it happens, it feels really average. Really, really bad. That’s how we felt.
“But it is not like we are now relieved of all the pressure and we can focus on football again. It was just an answer, to be honest, without long thinking!”