Jurgen Klopp: Tottenham Have “A Clear Footballing Idea”

Liverpool face Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League tonight, and Jurgen Klopp believes that they will play like a “good footballing side”.

“I understand that Ange doesn’t think it’s a great moment because of their own expectations, but you can always see a clear footballing idea and that’s what they still kept”, he said, speaking about Ange Postecoglou’s loss to Chelsea on Friday.

“We will have to be prepared for that, we have to defend really compact, if you don’t do that then they’ll play through because the idea is really obvious and they work now together nearly a year”.

Klopp recalled Liverpool’s 2-1 loss to Spurs from earlier in the season, where he was deeply unhappy with the refereeing decisions.

“It’s always a challenge [against Spurs]. I don’t want to make it the biggest subject, but I can’t forget the Tottenham game as well, it’s just so strange.

Only the other night for the first time since Tottenham, Simon Hooper was standing next to me for 90 minutes in a game I didn’t enjoy in the first place against Everton. He was there and he was the ref that night [at Tottenham]. I tried to get it out of my head, but I couldn’t”.

Klopp hopes to make up for that night with tonight’s performance.

“So, now we play Tottenham and that was obviously not their fault that night, they just played the game, but I would like to win that game for 500 reasons, that we lost there and the way we lost is one of them”, he said.