That’s sure to make their encounter at Anfield on Saturday all the more spectacular, and nearly certainly the pick of the weekend’s Premier League action.
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With only 12 games left to play, the former Reds manager believes it’s important for Jürgen Klopp’s charges to forget about Monday’s defeat at Leicester City and get back to basics to fulfil the job in hand.
“Think they need a classy centre-back, someone like a [Virgil] Van Dijk or a [Toby] Alderweireld”, he said.
“What is most important for me now is the attitude to just go for it – to go and take”.
Liverpool, meanwhile, welcome Arsenal to Anfield in a match that Klopp’s men must win if they are to maintain their challenge for a Champions League position.
“If you play for Arsenal, you always owe us a performance”. Should Arsenal play it safe and try to make sure we don’t lose, or go for the Jugular? Arsenal’s record against teams in the top six this season has been dismal: just the one win (against Chelsea, of all teams) in six games. “I would imagine Jürgen would have ripped into them after the game”, he said. We didn’t look like we played with enough freedom or enough belief that we would just turn up and do it and that is what we want to add to our game. “Once a team sits in we don’t know how to break them down”.
In these teams’ first meeting of the season, they combined for a thrilling seven goals as Liverpool came away with all three points at the end of a 4-3 win at the Emirates Stadium.
The two coaches are very much at risk of missing out on a place in the top four, with Manchester United directly behind the pair ahead of this weekend and can leapfrog the two with a win earlier in the day against struggling Bournemouth.
He continued: “I think since Klopp has been there we have been in profit for transfers so there should be some money in the kitty”.
Odinbet is a football prediction service that summarises football data and statistics to give the user a probability of certain things happening in an upcoming game. Being physical to me means being ready to hurt yourself, not the other player.
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Jurgen Klopp’s side are unbeaten against “Top Six” opposition this term, and this puts them at a huge advantage tomorrow given the Gunners have performed the exact opposite against the big teams. There are certainly far worse managers to be compared to Wenger.
