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Jurgen Klopp Comments on Pep Guardiola Attending Liverpool vs. Stoke City
- Updated: December 28, 2016
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp risked the ire of Manchester City ahead of the two sides’ clash on Saturday by suggesting the reason Pep Guardiola watched the Reds beat Stoke City on Tuesday at Anfield was “to watch good football.”
The Citizens manager was in attendance as Liverpool went 1-0 down to the Potters early on before eventually winning 4-1 to move six points behind league leaders Chelsea and one point ahead of City.
The Premier League encounter between City and Liverpool on Merseyside on New Year’s Eve could be crucial in determining whether either can maintain a genuine title challenge through to the end of the season.
Klopp said ahead of the clash he has a lot of respect for City but revealed that, unlike Guardiola, he has eschewed a personal scouting mission of the Manchester outfit, per Neil Jones in the Liverpool Echo:
Pep Guardiola was here tonight. Michael Edwards, the sporting director, messaged me to say …
