Jurgen Klopp on Chelsea clash: Expect a very difficult game for both teams

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is expecting a difficult test when his side take the pitch on Saturday to play Chelsea. In the new Premier League season, both these teams have won their opening two matches. Both have looked equally strong. Notably, both sides have collected six points from their opening two matches, while scoring five goals and conceding zero. Hence, the clash at Anfield might give an idea about the teams’ strengths and weaknesses. Speaking to the media from the AXA Training Centre ahead of his team’s meeting with the Blues, Klopp said, “I expect a very difficult game for both teams, I don’t think there is an easy way through any line. Both teams are really well organised, and will be I’m pretty sure, so it will be a big fight, definitely.”

“It’s one of these games that I would watch 100 per cent if I would not be involved. It’s pretty much a must-watch game, if you want. Chelsea are obviously in a really good moment, won the Champions League in the last club game of last season, played an incredible, I don’t know, last half of the season since Thomas [Tuchel] was in [they have] really developed in the right direction. They brought now [Romelu] Lukaku in, which doesn’t make them worse, obviously. So, it’s a tough opponent but we are not actually in the worst moment as well and hopefully we can show that.”

Jurgen Klopp on transfers

With only few days left in the transfer window, the Liverpool manager was asked about his take on it. Jurgen Klopp replied, “Do I expect a busy four days for us? Not really to be 100 per cent honest, but you never know. That’s how it is. The options didn’t get worse for some teams, that’s clear, but in the end, I said it a couple of times before, there are so many different reasons to win a football game and so many different ways to win a football game and it’s not all about bringing in new players and all this kind of stuff.”

“Again, it’s a little bit disappointing that I always have to mention that we brought in Ibou Konate who was not a bargain or whatever, he cost money as well. But yes, all these offensive, attacking players other clubs are signing, that’s obviously something they thought they need and they had the resources to do it. That’s the situation.

“But we will not use that as any kind of excuse in any kind of game. We will just go for it with all we have. We have other things we can build on: we are together for a while already, in this specific case now we play at home, which must be an advantage, and these kind of things. Look, I have really no time to look at other clubs. Of course I see the news and all that stuff when they sign a player, but I really have no time to think then, ‘How can they line up, what can they do?’ When we play them, we think about that and I think that’s enough.”