Jurgen Klopp is one of the world’s most successful, charismatic and entertaining football managers – but the Liverpool boss nearly chose a different career.
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The Reds come into the Bordeaux clash on the back of a magnificent 4-1 drubbing of Manchester City in the Premier League on Saturday.
After three successive away wins but struggles at Anfield, Klopp has rejected suggestions Liverpool are more suited to playing in opposition grounds.
“You shouldn’t make a bigger point out of it than it is”, Klopp said.
Liverpool entertain Bordeaux in the Europa League on Thursday knowing a win will see them through to the knockout phase of the competition. From the first day he arrived, it’s something that we’ve worked really hard on.
“I only think about the work we have to do against this team”. It is not easy to create chances against us.
“The intensity of this number of tournaments, it’s sometimes the price you have to pay – Palace was because of that”.
Liverpool, who are likely to be in buoyant mood following their aforementioned success over City, take on Bordeaux in the Europa League at Anfield tomorrow night.
“The most important thing was that we need to believe in ourselves and we have started to believe in ourselves”, he said. He has now trained seven or eight times in a row – the longest period since I’ve been here – and, of course, that will help him.
“If he is feeling in a good moment maybe a few minutes – or more – we will see in the game”.
“We all know what he achieved at Borussia Dortmund”. “He came in and over the first week-which I was training in-he put his style on us pretty much straight away”.
“I know him better as a player than a manager because we’ve never met each other on the sidelines”. “If something serious happens [injuries] then we have a big problem”.
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However, playmaker Philippe Coutinho is out with a hamstring problem, while centre-back Martin Skrtel is ill and unlikely to start.
