Jurgen Klopp fumed at Liverpool fans in tunnel incident before Atletico Madrid defeat
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Jurgen Klopp fumed at Liverpool's supporters ahead of a Champions League game in 2020, as some stuck their hands out to high-five players despite concerns over the spread of Covid-19.
The two sides will meet again in the Champions League this week, with the visitors having several injury concerns.
The game between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid went on to be viewed as a super-spreader event, as a packed Anfield watched the game on March 11, 2020 — just 12 days before the United Kingdom was locked down by Boris Johnson.
As Liverpool's players emerged from the Anfield tunnel to warm up for the game, some supporters tried to grasp hands with players, but Klopp told them in no uncertain terms that he would not be engaging.
Liverpool went on to lose the game and crash out of the Champions League, which was completed behind-closed-doors in a bizarre mini-tournament format several months later, as the pandemic halted life as we knew it.
Liverpool and Atletico will meet again on Wednesday as the Spanish club visits Anfield in the Champions League league phase.
The Reds have a 100 per cent record in the Premier League after scoring late winners in each of their four games so far, and Atleti should provide another stern test.x
New Liverpool signing Alexander Isak missed the game against Burnley as the club carefully manages his integration to the squad, but he could make his debut this week.
“He did recovery [today],” Liverpool head coach Arne Slot said after the win over Burnley
It’s not that difficult to understand.
“If you start the season when the players have been off for three, four, five weeks, you give them a certain base and a lot of good sessions before they are able to play 45 minutes at the end of the week.
“We got him from Newcastle in a state where his pre-season is going to start now
He needs proper minutes of training before he has a certain base, let alone for him to play twice in three days.
“We try to prepare players at the beginning of the season to play once a week and then we try to do more and more before we go into the rhythm of two games a week so they are ready from that schedule.
“Now, Alex is far from ready for that schedule of three games a week, 90 minutes