Opposition view | Jurgen Klopp on our 'different approach' and 'top, top, top' coach Ange
Fri 29 September 2023, 17:05|
Tottenham Hotspur
Jurgen Klopp gave his take on how we've changed tactically under Ange Postecoglou - with a nod to our 'top, top, top' coach ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (5.30pm).
Always a much-anticipated clash, this time around both teams remain unbeaten after six matches, Liverpool winning five of their six to sit second behind City in the early standings.
Both teams have also had a re-set with Liverpool saying goodbye to loyal servants, the likes of skipper Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, Roberto Firmino, James Milner, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with Ryan Gravenberch (Bayern Munich), World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton), Dominik Szoboszlai (RB Leipzig) and Wataru Endo (Stuttgart) all through the door at Anfield.
I know he is a top, top, top coach and he enjoys what he is doing, so they will spend some time with creating difficulties for us
Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Klopp said: "Yes, both teams will play football. That's good news but it's a little bit also new news because that's a different approach.
"Tottenham, in recent years, it was always that you played against the best counter-attacking team in the world. It was unbelievable what they set up there. If you lost a ball wherever, the next ball would find Kane and Kane will find Son and they will end up in a one-on-one with the goalie and it was pretty much not to defend.
"Now it is much more possession-based, it is much more based on own ideas, creative ideas and stuff like this. In the analysis we saw they have real quality but they will have found things where we are not perfect and we have found things where they were not perfect.
"I know he (Ange) is a top, top, top coach and he enjoys what he is doing, so they will spend some time with creating difficulties for us."
