Liverpool FC is losing more and more ground in the Premier League title race. Jurgen Klopp is almost desperate for patience, but also says you “have to end it” if he were no longer the right coach for the Reds. Ironically, Ronaldo and Messi encourage him.
In his distress, Jürgen Klopp sought support from the greatest footballers of the present. “Do you think Cristiano Ronaldo is bursting with self-confidence? It was the same with Lionel Messi last season. It happens to all of us,” said the team manager about the misery at Liverpool FC. But like the stars have done so many times before, Klopp wants to come back – as soon as possible.
“Individual athletes can go through it alone, in team sports you have to do it together,” he said, “it could be more complicated.” But before the important game in the Champions League against Glasgow Rangers (Tuesday, 9 p.m. / DAZN), he is plagued by the ghosts of the past. At 3:3 against Brighton on Saturday
Klopp himself came close several times on the rollercoaster ride against Brighton. His team turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 thanks to two goals from Roberto Firmino. But then Brighton’s Leandro Trossard hit for the third time – and Klopp right in the heart. Liverpool are already 11 points adrift of leaders Arsenal, their next Premier League opponents. The cracker against Manchester City follows with goal “monster” Erling Haaland, in the premier class Liverpool have to score twice against Rangers. “The lads can play much better. My job is to tease that out of them,” said Klopp.
Is he the right man for this? “I’m still in the right place here at the moment, one hundred percent,” he said before the Brighton game on Sky, but with the addition: “And if not, then you have to end it. It would be stupid if you didn’t would do.” But, he emphasized, “everyone involved doesn’t see it.” But of seven league games, the runners-up only won against Bournemouth and Newcastle. Last season Liverpool had five points more and were undefeated at the same time. The reasons for the earnings crisis? Klopp referred to the upheaval in the squad and the recent injury misery.
What did he find so awful? “We didn’t stand deep, but we didn’t attack high either. We were somewhere in between,” complained the 55-year-old. And now? “We’re under pressure, we don’t ignore it. We don’t increase the pressure every day, but it’s there.” Also on him.
