Jürgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool need to improve on the lack of fluency they showed going forward during Wednesday's frustrating 0-0 draw with West Bromwich Albion.

And the Reds boss insists his opinion of his side's performance against the Baggies would not have changed even had they gone on to claim a narrow win.

Alan Pardew's team earned a valuable point from their trip to Anfield as they sat deep and soaked up almost relentless pressure across the 90 minutes.

Klopp credited the visitors for their performance but acknowledged that Liverpool need to do more when faced with such an approach - a belief he would have held even had his team scraped three points.

"You can never be sure that [the attacking spark] is still there, you always have to do as much as you can," he told reporters. 

"The game against West Brom, I told the boys, it started stiff but that doesn't mean it has to stay like this. 

"We always can make a new start in a game but it didn’t work. We had two or three good chances in the first half and in the second half a few more. 

"I always think about the performance - if we win it 1-0 it doesn't make this game one inch better, it's just that the result is massively different. 

"We didn’t lose it in a week and we don’t get it in a week, it's still there, but it's our responsibility to deliver, we know that. 

"We have to play better than we did against West Brom but to ask for [us] in these one or two or three decisive moments to score instead of not scoring - that would be silly. 

"It's not about that, we have to come into these situations, we have to gain from minute to minute a better feeling in a game, we have to be more fluent. 

"You can't force it or ask for fluency, you bring yourself in this mood, and that’s what didn’t happen really against West Brom."

Despite his disappointment, Klopp was keen to emphasise that his opinion on the quality of his squad has not changed following the result in midweek, just as it didn't after the recent 7-0 win over Spartak Moscow.

"I'm not sure if this is the only place where we think now we are back in the dark days or whatever - it's just one game," he added.

"Why should I be overly concerned from this point of view that we will now play always like we did against West Brom?

"That would be exactly the same mistake as thinking now we always play like we did against Spartak Moscow. 

"It's really hard work and the boys were ready again for hard work and West Brom did well, to be honest. 

"It was completely different to Everton; West Brom had their moments, had their counter-attacks, had their set-pieces, which were difficult because we don't have the same size as them. 

"So, they deserved a close result and, at the end, it’s 0-0. Of course the majority of the time we had the ball and we didn’t [use it] as well as we did against Everton. 

"If we had [used] it as well as against Everton, I'm sure we would have had more chances. We work on that, we talk, but in times like this we talk more about it than we work on it because we are not every day on the training ground. 

"We cannot do tactical things every day, neither defensive or offensive, that's how it is."