With the race for the top spot getting intensified, Premier League, however, is facing a bit of Covid-19 crisis.
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Liverpool have been one of the in-form teams of this season, scoring goals for fun to stay in the quest for titles on all fronts. The Reds are currently sitting second in the Premier League table – a point behind Manchester City. With the race for the top spot getting intensified, Premier League, however, is facing a bit of Covid-19 crisis. As a result of which some matches have been postponed lately. Liverpool’s Sunday opponents Tottenham Hotspur were in the middle of such concerns recently. Hence, it will be interesting to see how fit and ready they will be for Sunday’s clash against the Reds.
Undoubtedly, Jurgen Klopp was asked a number of questions in relation to the recent crisis during his pre-match press conference on Friday. On Sunday’s game going ahead and ‘any concerns over the integrity of the competition’ with some fixtures being postponed, Klopp, as per their club’s website, replied, “I don’t know. We have now in the moment games to play and Thursday-Sunday is a tough rhythm. We have no information about Tottenham, I don’t know anything about [it]. I have no idea if they train since today, from tomorrow or since a week.”
“I have really no idea. It’s difficult to get any kind of information which is part of a preparation for a game. Integrity of the game? I don’t know when these games will all be played. Where is the space for them to be played? I don’t know all these kinds of things. We don’t think we shouldn’t play on Sunday, honestly. But I say that now. If in two hours when the players arrive here and we have six, seven, eight more cases then of course we cannot play. But in a situation like we are now, we can play and we would like to play. That’s it, pretty much.”
Klopp was then asked about the difficulty in football terms of preparing to face a Spurs side who have not played for two weeks. “I have no idea in this moment what we can expect. After this press conference we have the analysis meeting; they will use old pictures obviously. We still don’t know what we can make of that, maybe we’ll have a little idea about the system, stuff like this, but that’s it pretty much because we have absolutely no information. But it’s not about now our preparation for the Tottenham game. That’s difficult,” he added.
“But for them it’s difficult as well, I know that – who wants to not to play for two weeks and all of a sudden you have to play again? It’s all not easy. I just think with all the things we are discussing and we don’t know, is there the solution? I don’t see it in the moment. But more transparency I think would really be helpful. So we know in this moment three players are probably not available. If they will be available we will say it.
“If they were a false positive and we realise that then we will say that and everybody knows they are now available. In the moment, nobody knows at all. I have no idea if Manchester United… I heard a number of players but I have no idea who the players are, I have no idea who had the virus at Tottenham. I don’t know if it’s necessary to know who, if it’s necessary to know how many. But knowing nothing in a really public world is quite strange.”
