Jürgen Klopp has urgently warned the English Football Premier League to protect the stars from a tougher pace of the opponents.
Before the start of the season, the clubs in the elite class had been told that they did not want to punish “trivial things” in order not to prevent the flow of the game.
"If you like that, watch wrestling," the former Dortmund master coach ranted in an interview with BT Sport: "It's like we're going back 10 to 15 years." In the 2-0 success on Saturday at the sold-out Liverpooler At Anfield Road versus Burnley FC, the guests' players had not received a single yellow card from referee Mike Dean, despite twelve free kicks being awarded to the team.
Klopp openly criticized the actions of Burnley players Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood: “I'm not one hundred percent sure that the officials are going in the right direction with their decisions.” His team was always ready to take on the fight, “that was the case today “Said the Liverpool coach.
But: "The message is: Do not disturb the flow of the game, but nobody knows exactly what that means exactly."
Klopp advocated a game management that preferred the “offensive team, we have to be careful to protect the players. We cannot ignore that ”. His team had a number of good moments “in which we played a brilliant game without actually scoring a goal. The rest of the time we had to fight incredibly hard, "said the coach and summed up:" We won, and no one was injured. "