Some decent posts, especially from BCCC and killer.
At this point in time of Klopp's career here, Watford knew exactly how to play us, which players to target (a Sakho returning from injury, though Skrtel got his fair share), aided by their pitch. I honestly believe we could have given 200 percent out there and still lost, mainly because we did not know how to progress with the ball. Effort not channelled by accurate direction is pointless.
That is understandable seeing that you need a proper pre season to work in the coach's preferred movements, both the aerial game and the short passing patterns, time for him to fully study the vagaries of this league and its teams. No blame on Klopp, it is what is it at this point. There is no 'narrative' or story with the manager for me, if he's good enough, and Klopp's pedigree and some of the things we've shown defensively indicate that, he gets a good 3 years to put in place his ideas, get in his players, then we'll see how it goes, right now it's a lot of pointless hand-wringing.
Players like Coutinho and Firmino will shirk tackles, their profile of player has always done that as far as I can remember. A Suarez is few and far between. They need to balance that by breaking teams down with skill, neither of them could do that because we couldn't get the ball enough to them, there was little composure in our build-up, partly due to Watford's aggression and pressing (in bursts, but obvious in the first half) and our lack of fluency with our passing patterns.
Until Klopp's had the time with his squad (for the love of the next season, bunker them in somewhere for a month and let him train rather than another season destroying jaunt across the world; at this point, having done so little of note it's getting cringeworthy), we will see games where, against teams who want to keep the ball in their third, and in midfield, to build - the likes of City, Utd (van gaal), Southampton - our pressing game will actually have the time to get going, we will look good. Against teams that tactically set-up to nullify us by going direct quickly, the onus shifts to our possession game. That's lacking, it will cost us. That's not getting sorted mid season, and not with the current midfielders. Bunker in, understand why the bad's happening, recognise and enjoy the good things, then we'll see.