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Jurgen Klopp insists that Liverpool will never give up in the Premier League, even if the Champions League offers them a better option to extend their careers in Europe’s main club competition.
A spoil of just 12 points out of the last 39 available has ended Liverpool’s title defense with barely a whimper and has Klopp’s side scrambling for a top-four result.
Winning the Champions League would offer a way back to Europe’s main tournament, but there is still a long way to go on that front despite holding a 2-0 lead heading into the second leg of the round of 16 of next week against RB Leipzig.
Klopp says he will not allow Europe to divert its attention from the ongoing struggle on the home front.
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“We play Fulham and three days later we play Leipzig and we are not in the next round,” he said.
“I can’t think of winning the Champions League now because we have to go through this difficult round.
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Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool’s current downfall was not inevitable following their achievements in recent seasons.
“This week we play these three games, at the end of the season, with two days in between, Thursday, Sunday and Wednesday, and it is difficult.
“We see who we can line up on Sunday and then who can play on Wednesday, but it’s not that we gave up on the Premier League, that will never happen.
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Jamie Carragher assesses where it all went wrong for Liverpool this season after Jurgen Klopp’s side suffered their fifth straight loss at home.
“There is no game we can play and lose and people say, ‘Ah … look at the lineup.’
“Liverpool are too big, there are too many people interested. We do not really play behind closed doors without cameras, it is in front of our people and we feel the responsibility that in each game we have to give everything to win it. .
“If that doesn’t happen, people will think, ‘That’s not enough.’ We don’t change our attitude.”
Klopp: Salah’s frustration with the substitution is a ‘normal problem’
Klopp says Mohamed Salah’s frustration at being substituted during Liverpool’s loss to Chelsea on Thursday is a “normal problem” as he praised the forward’s excellent scoring record this season.
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Jurgen Klopp insists there is no problem with Mo Salah at Liverpool after the forward was substituted early against Chelsea.
Salah, who has scored 17 goals this season, the most goals in the league, was visibly unhappy and shook his head after being replaced in the 62nd minute of the Reds’ fifth straight loss at Anfield.
Klopp revealed after the game that he had made the substitution because the Egyptian international was “feeling the intensity.”
Right after the substitution, Salah’s agent Remy Abbas Issa posted a cryptic response to the change, tweeting just one point.
When Klopp was asked what he had to do to make sure there was no lasting problem, he replied: “Talk. That’s the way it always is. I’m not even sure if this situation is a reason for ‘proper talk’ about it.
“We were 1-0 down, that does not make any player happy, you leave and you can react in different ways because you are not happy with the general game.
“Besides that, they replace you [as] a striker and believes that he should stay on the field. All of that is completely clear and is a normal problem. It’s a normal life. “
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