Klopp fears spies in Porto

Jürgen Klopp still remembers his last outward travel to Porto, which is already. How to help his team before the upcoming on Tuesday (21 pm, live! At Porto) but in some way that they won in 2018 with 5: 0 and 2019 with 4: 1 in the Estadio do Dragao, is the coach of the FC Liverpool a mystery.

That s no advantage that we have won the last two games there absolutely not, Klopp said on Monday. Rather, it is for Porto Another reason to be motivated. That makes our task easier. Sure, I m still glad that we won at that time . But that the Reds do so with particularly good feelings for this year s Champions League game? No, Klopp waved. That does not make sense.

Even if we were training at Boavista, the information would find your way out

He prepared his eleven, who did not get over a 3-3 on Saturday at promoted Brentford, on a top-team , who qualifies each year for the Champions League , and not on a team that we struck to have . The timetable of preparation, however, Klopp has specially adapted this time.

We do not have much time, he said, Yesterday regeneration, today regeneration, and tomorrow we can not really train there, because all people in Porto are still Portuguese. Even if we would train at Boavista or wherever they would train The information finds your way out. So today we had to do everything in a light version today. From concern for spies, Mo Salah & Co. got their Porto-fine grinding in Liverpool.

Wiggle Room in Porto? Klopp wants to know nothing about it

Because he won his starting game with 3: 2 against Milan and parted at Atletico and Porto Torlos, the Champions League winner of 2019 could already get a small upholstery in the group B with another victory in Porto - a little wiggle Room as it expressed a reporter, scope so to speak.

I do not know the word, Klopp acknowledged, but no matter, but he does not know such a situation just as little: To count on points that you do not even have - I have never done that and never understood. I do not understand , how it works. In the case of Portos 0: 0 at Atletico Madrid, by the way, the Portuguese had been those who had earned the victory. That says everything about Porto.

With the injured Thiago and Harvey Elliott, Klopp must replace only two players on Tuesday, even if he suggested that one or other last-stressed in favor of a training session in Liverpool will not travel. Hopefully that stays like that, Klopp said to the pleasant staff situation, which was not very different before not very long ago.

Klopp expands team council - trio new

Because the Reds in the preseason had to fight for months with massive injury worries, Klopp has even changed the team council. Instead of four players, this consists of six. While Georginio Wijnaldum switched to PSG, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Roberto Firmino and Alisson were newly elected to the panel, to which Captain Jordan Henderson, Vice James Milner and Virgil van Dijk continues to include.

Sometimes we had nobody from the team council last year in the middle of the team, explained Klopp. That s why I decided to extend the group to six. For a bit more wiggle Room in this area.