Contemplating his side’s Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City last season, Jürgen Klopp said that to sit back and look to absorb pressure against such a side was in effect to try to “win the lottery”. Against the very best, he believes there is no point – at least for a team of Liverpool’s ability – in curling up like a hedgehog and hoping the threat somehow goes away. He vowed to attack, and did, and his reward was three goals in an extraordinary 20-minute spell that settled the tie before half-time in the first leg.
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Written by Jonathan Wilson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/02/jurgen-klopp-tactics-barcelona-lionel-messi-liverpool under the title “Klopp took a risk with his tactics at Barcelona – and Messi made him pay | Jonathan Wilson”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
