Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp said Wednesday on Open Media Day before next Saturday’s Champions League final against Real Madrid in Paris that Thiago Alcánatara had “great options to play” and was assured, about the team of Madrid, that “I don’t believe in revenge.” Klopp added that “everything is fine between us and Real Madrid.”
The first question to Klopp was about Thiago: “I met him inside. There’s a good chance he’ll play. He’s surprisingly good. The good news is they’re not that bad. He can train tomorrow (for Thursday).”
The final will come for Liverpool six days after losing the Premier League on the final day, which is a point behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City: “No one feels the pain of Sunday. We look forward to this match against a fantastic strong rival “You never know when you’ll reach another Champions League final, so it’s special. We will face a team that has won it four times in the last ten years. “
With the fact that Liverpool have scored five goals in five games, Klopp commented: “We could have won most of those games back then, but we’re still going. Maybe it’s a good preparation. It’s naive to think that in a final everything will be in your favor. “
Klopp said of Carlo Ancelotti, coach of Real Madrid: “My English is not enough to find a word to describe it, but Carlo is for me clearly one of the most successful coaches in the world and a model of how managed success. great guy. I have a good relationship with him but it was hold on hold when he managed Everton! I have no higher respect for him. He never stop winning. “
On whether Liverpool wanted revenge after losing the 2017-18 Champions League final against Real Madrid, Klopp spoke as follows: “I don’t believe in revenge. I understand it but I think it’s not a good way to do it “You’ll meet twice in your life. Everything is fine between us and Real Madrid. It’s a football match of the highest level”.
In the fact that, if he wins, he will be the first Premier coach to win two Champions Leagues: “My reputation? I don’t care about anything. I forgot these things almost as fast as they happened.”
Klopp, on the returns of Real Madrid_ “If you take ten minutes in every Real Madrid game (in the current Champions League) you might think you have no options, but the games are longer than that and you can go back. Real have a lot of experience and he knows very well how to approach the final, we saw that in 2018. But since then, we have a lot of experience.We don’t talk about them as if in the last minutes against City.If that were the case it would be difficult.It’s good to have another 88 minutes into the game.
Klopp also wanted to make the following clear: “We are not here by magic. We are here because we deserve it. We were in the group of death, as you called it. This year we found another way to win.”
Source: La Verdad
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