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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes that prioritizing results over style is what has made his Tottenham counterpart José Mourinho so successful.
The Reds coach said at key moments that the Portuguese is happy to abandon everything else in search of victory.
Klopp’s team won applause across the board for the way they played their way to a first league title in 30 years last season, but he accepts that there are other ways to get the job done and respects Mourinho for his concentrated will to win.
“I think that with the long time that José Mourinho has been successful in the football business, he played practically all the different systems and with a lot of different styles,” Klopp said.
Klopp says he ‘respects’ Mourinho prioritizing results over style
“As a coach you have to adapt to the quality you have and mix the ideas you have and that is one of José Mourinho’s best skills.
“At the end of the day, it’s all about getting results and that is José’s best ability because in decisive moments he is not concerned with style, he is only concerned with the result and that makes him the most successful coach and I respect that. “.
The pair will meet in a clash at the top of the Premier League table on Wednesday, two years after Liverpool’s 3-1 victory over Manchester United announced the Portuguese’s sacking two days later.
In that game, Mourinho sent Marouane Fellaini to halftime in place of Paul Pogba in an attempt to put down his hosts and come out with a point, but it was a tactic that didn’t work.
Mourinho has Tottenham playing attacking football, but Klopp doesn’t think it’s fair to judge then and now.
“I don’t think you can compare Man United’s last game to the way he plays now. From a confidence level it’s completely different.”
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Tottenham has become ‘a results machine’ with José Mourinho, according to Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp
“Has he reinvented himself? I don’t know, he looks a bit like that when you see him on Instagram!”
“But other than that, he has so much experience and intelligence that he knows what to do. I think he asked for time at first and it was obviously worth it.
“Tottenham have the quality of the best teams and when they have the ball they show it.
“They defend like a top team and right now they probably have the best counter moves.
“It’s not that they play a little bit of football, they are a suitable package at the moment, but that does not cost me confidence when I think about my team. It’s like always.”
José: Klopp is close to perfection
It seems the feelings of admiration are mutual, as Mourinho described what Klopp is doing at Anfield as “close to perfection”.
“I think a team to achieve what Liverpool have already achieved and what they keep trying to achieve more, the job has to be perfect,” he said.
“Great transfer window, great evolution of the players they had (when Klopp arrived). It is time for Jurgen to establish the profile and principles of play that were to be the basis of the team’s development.
“Then a big investment in key goals. (They bought Virgil) Van Dijk at one crucial moment, Alisson (Becker) at another. Everything they do, they do very, very well.”
“So, I think it is very close to perfection to reach the level of results that they are achieving.”
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