Klopp's pre-match press conference vs Arsenal:
Naby Keita and Jordan Henderson will miss tomorrow’s game against Arsenal and look likely to be ruled out of next week’s Champions League clash against Red Star. Mo Salah, however, is fit after a tendon in his arm became inflamed.
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“Hendo is really good, but probably for start of next week,” the boss explained.
“Naby [will return at] the end of this week.”
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In football, a not too serious injury means two, three, four weeks (out) and in the Premier League that means 20 games if we are lucky! We didn't have to rush it.
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“Mo its nothing serious, inflammation of the [wrist] tendon, just for protection, it has no influence [on him playing].”
Jurgen explained the new 4-2-3-1 formation that has been utilised in recent weeks, saying every system is designed to allow his players to shine.
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“Players shouldn't lose rhythm if you change the system a little bit,” said the Reds boss.
“It's not like we are only playing with two at the back and eight up front. It's really not that massive a difference.
“The system is there to bring the players at their best and most comfortable position, but if they stay in that position it's a boring game, they have to move.
“You need to create a formation for defending where everybody knows what to do, and then a formation offensively where everybody is in their best area on the pitch. We can do that in different ways.
“We are not that stubborn system-wise. We were never. Maybe without people seeing it, we have already played a diamond this season and nobody spoke about it. Obviously it wasn't that obvious otherwise there'd have been big stories about it!
“We try to use players in the best way and give them the position where they can shine.”
The manager explored 2016’s Europa League final defeat to Unai Emery’s Sevilla, admitting his side ran out of fuel after failing to take advantage of their first-half dominance.
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“You're giving managers a bit too much credit if you think we have that much influence. He couldn't defend us in the first half, we had to help with that by missing our chances.
“We have to check the dressing room at Basel again about what happened in there because the game changed immediately when we came back out.
“We had a big influence on that game. It was a question of momentum, they had it we lost it, we had it in the wrong half of the game I would say, in the first half, we didn't score often enough.
“They had it in the second half and we couldn't fight back in the 63rd game of the season, there was not a lot of fuel left in the tank.
“Emery is a very, very experienced manager and all the Spanish guys are really competitive.
“I don't think he had a lot of influence in the first half and I couldn't have any influence in the second half, that was the problem of that day.
“They won, we lost, that's already history.”
Finally, Klopp also says Arsenal cannot be judged on past seasons under Arsene Wenger and is impressed with their start to the season under Emery after the Gunners lost to Manchester City and Chelsea in their first two games.
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“They have a lot of star players. I don’t want to compare what they did last year, to be honest. It’s not my job. My job is to know what they did this year, not all the stories around it.
“Arsene Wenger is one of the best managers in the world, there’s no doubt about it. And sometimes after a long time when the mood in a club changes, it’s quite difficult to work against that. That was the situation a bit last year, people respected him a lot but on the other side they thought ‘now we should change something’.
“A change is only good if it is for the better. Unai Emery, all people in football knew how good he is, but I am not sure all Arsenal fans were over the moon at first when they heard it would be Emery. But that’s England a little bit, you want the poster boys. Unai was in France and before that in Spain in a smaller club, so you can go a bit under the radar.
“Not for all the people in football, though. I saw yesterday that he won eight titles in two or three years. That’s pretty big. It was clear that things will change, and the players know now.