Deja Vu: Is this Liverpool the Borussia Dortmund of 2014-2015?

Jürgen Klopp is not going through his best moment as a coach. In fact, in her own words, the loss to Fulham, sixth in a row at Anfield, leaves her in her worst situation since joining Liverpool. The Reds, current champions of the Premier, are 22 points behind the leader and seven from qualifying for the next Champions League, something that is in serious danger.

There are those who look back and remember Klopp's last season on the Borussia Dortmund bench, in which the team also fell. That Dortmund from the 2014-2015 season, which had just joined a championship, the last one Bayern did not win, in 2011-2012, and two runners-up, was bottom on matchday 19. Dortmund reacted in the final part of the championship and ended up finishing seventh, far from expectations but at least saving a situation that would have been dramatic.

In the Champions League, for his part, where in previous years he had competed until reaching a final, he was swept away by Juventus. Klopp's departure was announced in mid-April, when Dortmund were no longer in danger of relegation. In his replacement came Thomar Tuchel, who, although he did not reach Klopp's peaks of success, returned Dortmund to their competitive level.

By then, Lewandowski and Götze were already from Bayern Munich and there had probably been attrition with the squad. The same that Liverpool now suffers in the coach's sixth season? It does not seem the main reason, and the serious injuries that have left the team with a very diminished defense do, but it can be a secondary reason. In any case, in England they point out that not even being out of the Champions League would jeopardize Klopp's position. The fall of his Liverpool will not cost him the position as it did that in his Dortmund. And it is that winning the Champions League and lifting the Premier with a team that has not won it for 30 years has to have, at least, the prize of patience.