Klopp renews the demand for five changes in the English Premier League
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has repeated his request to the Premier League with five substitutions per match after he capitalized on the matter in last week's League Cup final.
Klopp described his team's 11-10 penalty shootout victory over Chelsea, after the goalless draw, as one of the fiercest matches he has experienced.
But Klopp and his counterpart Thomas Tuchel were able to make five changes in the final.
Klopp said the Premier League should allow five changes instead of three as it did in 2020 in the first season during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He told reporters, "It was definitely great to make five changes in the final and we have to keep talking about that because it happens all over the world and it serves football. The match against Chelsea was one of the hardest matches I've seen for 120 minutes and it was possible to make five changes and we have to keep discussing. This is a requirement until it is fulfilled because it is necessary.”
With Liverpool winning their first local cup in a decade, they still have the chance to achieve a quartet this season.
It ranks second in the league behind Manchester City and reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup and put one foot in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
But Klopp focuses only on Saturday's match against West Ham United, who defeated Liverpool last November.
The difference with City will be reduced to three points, with an equal number of matches, if they win.
The German coach continued, "I am enjoying the current situation, but I do not like questions (about the quartet) because it seems as if we have already won all the matches." A state of preparation for the match.” West Ham are fifth and their victory will help them enter the semi-finals before Sunday’s summit in Manchester between fourth-placed United and City. Roberto Firmino will continue to be unprepared, and defender Joel Matip will be out of illness, while Liverpool will assess Curtis Jones and Naby Keita’s condition before the match. .
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