Jurgen Klopp: على كورة ايزيLiverpool boss says Man City boss Pep Guardiola is the best in the world
Jurgen Klopp has called Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola "the best manager in the world" and says Liverpool will need a "perfect performance" to beat their Premier League title rivals as they face off in the week Meet in a special match of Japanese Sky Sports.
Ahead of City's Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid this week, Guardiola joked that he may have found a solution to his overly complex tactics in big games: play with 12 players.
"I always think too much in the Champions League," Guardiola said. "I always come up with new tactics and ideas and you will see a new one. I think about it a lot and that's why I have a good result in the Champions League. It would be boring if my job had to play the same games it has always been. "
Klopp is expected to face a thrilling battle at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday that will give his side a chance to lead two points and win in the Premier League.
But he felt obligated to defend Guardiola after his lighthearted comments were taken verbatim by some media outlets.
The Liverpool boss said: "It's ironic! I saw a story in Ecuador this week that I don't understand Luis Diaz. You have a responsibility to the planet. If you want to talk to us, please do so first and help us. " Pep said with a wry smile: "I will think about it, I like to think about it".
"Pep is the leading coach within the world. I think we would all concur on that and it could be a coincidence that it didn't work out within the Champions Alliance so distant. In the event that anyone questions him, I have no thought how that seem happen."
Klopp emphasized that regard for Guardiola and his group in an select meet with Sky Sports' Geoff Shreeves, when he was inquired what it takes to defeat the Spaniard's sides. The German has the most excellent record of any supervisor against Guardiola, winning nine of their 22 gatherings, but says his group will have to be be at their outright best to come out on best at the Etihad. "You require a idealize execution," Klopp said. "You would like to defend on your outright most elevated level. There's no framework within the world which can guard them as a framework. But you'll cause City issues in case you have got a great thought, great arrange, great framework and after that best, beat world-class players. That makes a difference."
Whereas City as of late dropped focuses against a Precious stone Royal residence side which had fair 26 per cent of the ball and protected profound, Klopp is obvious his Liverpool group will play their claim diversion in Manchester this end of the week. He accepts it ought to make for another "intriguing" duel between the country's two best teams.
"There were other recreations where City battled to win, they were still predominant but couldn't break down a moo square and stuff like this. That's football," said Klopp. "We battle with that from time to time. It's the foremost troublesome thing. The spaces get littler and littler and you still have the same sum of players to play against. "We do not play like this, we'll attempt to make ourselves, we are going have our possess ownership stages. City has the most noteworthy ownership within the association, we are not distant behind. We have comparative ownership numbers. There are contrasts in our set up but there's not so much a contrast as there utilized to be.
"Both groups go for counter-press, need to win the ball back tall, we might press somewhat higher, against us final time they let us step in a small bit more... It's curiously, it's intriguing from a unadulterated football fan point of view. "You have a see at it and the recreations against them were continuously curiously. It's great fun as well, we ought to not disregard that. I truly like it." As well as the strategic angle, head-to-heads between these sides too tend to serve up objectives, with 19 scored within the final five.
There's a parcel on the line this time - champions City lead Liverpool, who have won their final 10 Head Association recreations, by fair one point heading into the assembly at the Etihad - but Klopp accepts Sunday's experience will live up to the beat charging.
"Exceptionally frequently it doesn't happen when two best groups confront each other, but our history of matches have appeared them to be an curiously observe as both groups truly go for it," the German included. "Both groups need to utilize energy, crevices and make force. We both hunt for holes so I anticipate an curiously diversion.