Liverpool vs. Everton: Jurgen Klopp’s Key Pre-Match Presser Comments

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has called for his players to keep their heads during Wednesday’s Merseyside derby with Everton at Anfield, saying he will not be asking his team to “kick [Everton’s players] out of the stadium.”

Klopp was speaking in his pre-match press conference on Tuesday. Per the Liverpool Echo’s James Pearce, he said:

Klopp: “I’m not going to say ‘kick them out of the stadium’. It’s about football. To handle the emotions and the pressure – big challenge.”

— James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho) April 19, 2016

Klopp: “Before I went to Dortmund there were lots of red cards in derbies. I don’t want to see this. Not to show ‘I am the man’.”

— James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho) April 19, 2016

The German is eagerly anticipating his first experience of facing the Reds’ bitter rivals, though, according to the Daily Mirror’s Jacob Murtagh: “I like these moments, even when there is pressure on both sides. Three points but a lot of other things to get—to make our fans happy.”

Per Pearce, he added:

Klopp: “It will be intensive. I know about Everton, nearly everything. It’s a big club, a very successful club in the past.”

— James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho) April 19, 2016

Further, according to Murtagh, he expects there to be a pulse-pounding atmosphere at Anfield, just as there was …

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