Liverpool (AFP)
Liverpool is fully focused on Tuesday's match against Genk in the Champions League, assured Monday Jürgen Klopp, while the Reds will receive Sunday their runner-up Manchester City in the Championship of England.
"Nobody thinks (of City), assured the coach, I have no doubt about my players and I would be a little ashamed to have to tell them + do not think about Man City +", he assures.
"The story the boys have been writing for the last three years has only been possible because we have always been focused on the next match," jokingly adds, "you have the right to say the words Man City, you do not. just do not have the right to think about it. "
Klopp still responded to a spike of Pep Guardiola on Sadio Mané, the author of the decisive goal for Liverpool against Aston Villa on Saturday, but also warned for a simulation in the area.
"Sometimes he dives and sometimes he has this talent to score incredible goals at the last minute," slipped the Spanish coach.
"I did not hear Sadio's name," Klopp protested, "I can say that Sadio is not a simulator."
"There was an action during the match against Aston Villa where there was contact and he fell, maybe there was no penalty, but there was contact, it's not as if he jumped over his leg to fall, "he added.
Second in Group 3 of the Champions League, one point from Naples, Liverpool would take a big step towards qualifying by beating Genk they have already dominated in Belgium 4 to 1 in the first leg.
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