Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp defends Loris Karius from Jamie Carragher's criticism after Bournemouth defeat

The 23-year-old goalkeeper gifted a stoppage-time winner to Nathan Ake at the Vitality Stadium after spilling Steve Cook's drilled shot

Klopp defended his goalkeeper after his costly mistake in stoppage time (Getty)

Jurgen Klopp has defended Loris Karius after he was criticised as “miles away” from an acceptable standard by former Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher.

The 23-year-old goalkeeper bore the brunt of fan frustration after his side’s spectacular collapse from 3-1 up to a 4-3 defeat at Bournemouth on Sunday.

Karius’ error in stoppage time gifted a winning goal to Nathan Ake, after Callum Wilson, Ryan Fraser and Steve Cook had already beaten the summer signing from Mainz.

While analysing the game for Sky Sports, Carragher said of Karius: “In eight starts for Liverpool he has not shown me one thing to suggest he's good enough at this level. He's yet to convince me in any game.

“It's still early days but he would need a massive improvement. When your defence is under pressure, sometimes you need your goalkeeper to save it and he's miles away."

“No concern. No problem, if you make mistakes you get criticised. That's what happens in life. If you have quality... I'm sure people criticised Jamie Carragher in his career, if there's a reason I'm not sure.

“If you want to say we're blind, silly, not good enough, do it. It has no influence on what I do to my team. Write it. I won't read it.

“We missed chances today. Do we have good strikers? Yes we do. The last goal was not easy for a goalkeeper. It says othing about him as a goalkeeper. It happens. We go on.”

“I'm not angry,” he said. “I was angry during the game a few times, but I saw that my boys didn't want to do the wrong thing, but they did and lost the momentum in the game, and it's not simple to come back.

“That's why you have to keep momentum all the time you can. I cannot change it. So why should I be angry?

“We have no attitude or character problem,” Klopp added. “No one is born a winner. Not in the first two or three months. You have to learn it. Last year there was a lot of criticism and we managed to change, and tried to be much better.”

Additional reporting by PA