Jul 1 2020, 10:31 PM
Guard of Honour
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"It is an English tradition, a Premier League tradition we will take it, it's a nice gesture. But I wouldn't need it."
Defend next year title?
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“City will be strong next season, United will be strong next season, Chelsea will be strong next season, they all will be strong next season.
“Only the three of them it’s obvious: City is just an outstanding team, United is in outstanding shape and Chelsea is in really good shape and is doing some interesting business.
“Tottenham will not sleep, Arsenal will not sleep, Leicester will be there. There are a lot of teams.
“We need to obviously play 38 games in a year, and whoever wins most of them can win the league—that’s now happened for us for the first time.
“So we will not defend the title or whatever next year, we will attack the next one. That will be difficult enough, but we will have the same situation as other teams.
“What we achieved last year, in this case last week, is something for the history books.
“The rest is just hard work and we will try to show that already tomorrow night, but it’s difficult anyway, because City is an absolutely super team and we have to show that we are ready for that.”
“Only the three of them it’s obvious: City is just an outstanding team, United is in outstanding shape and Chelsea is in really good shape and is doing some interesting business.
“Tottenham will not sleep, Arsenal will not sleep, Leicester will be there. There are a lot of teams.
“We need to obviously play 38 games in a year, and whoever wins most of them can win the league—that’s now happened for us for the first time.
“So we will not defend the title or whatever next year, we will attack the next one. That will be difficult enough, but we will have the same situation as other teams.
“What we achieved last year, in this case last week, is something for the history books.
“The rest is just hard work and we will try to show that already tomorrow night, but it’s difficult anyway, because City is an absolutely super team and we have to show that we are ready for that.”
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“There are a lot of challenges, life is constantly a challenge, and our challenge is now being champion playing seven games against teams that fight for everything,” he continued.
“So we can show we don’t run because we have to, we can show we run because we want to.
“Then next season, you will all make stories of it, ‘the defending champion’, all this kind of stuff. That’s why I say we will not defend anything, we will attack. And what we get for it, I have no idea, but nothing changed.
“I feel it now, it was one of the best moments of my life, the second I knew that we are champions of England, but it’s not that I have it constantly in myself now.
“I don’t have to remind myself, but it’s not like it’s carrying me through the day.
“The last week, after we had two days where we tried to make sure that we got it now, or that we understood now what happened around us, since then we’ve been preparing for Man City, and with full focus.
“That doesn’t mean we will beat them, it just means that we will be prepared, and that’s what we will be for the next season as well.
“That’s how it works. I don’t know another way, if there’s another way maybe people will tell me.
“But I’ve learned [that] when you think you’ve reached the pinnacle, you are already on the way down.
“And we don’t feel that, honestly. I can say it, 100 percent, I don’t feel finally satisfied.
“So it’s just another step, a big one, unbelievably big, but not the only thing I want to talk to the boys about when I meet them in 20 years’ time.”
“So we can show we don’t run because we have to, we can show we run because we want to.
“Then next season, you will all make stories of it, ‘the defending champion’, all this kind of stuff. That’s why I say we will not defend anything, we will attack. And what we get for it, I have no idea, but nothing changed.
“I feel it now, it was one of the best moments of my life, the second I knew that we are champions of England, but it’s not that I have it constantly in myself now.
“I don’t have to remind myself, but it’s not like it’s carrying me through the day.
“The last week, after we had two days where we tried to make sure that we got it now, or that we understood now what happened around us, since then we’ve been preparing for Man City, and with full focus.
“That doesn’t mean we will beat them, it just means that we will be prepared, and that’s what we will be for the next season as well.
“That’s how it works. I don’t know another way, if there’s another way maybe people will tell me.
“But I’ve learned [that] when you think you’ve reached the pinnacle, you are already on the way down.
“And we don’t feel that, honestly. I can say it, 100 percent, I don’t feel finally satisfied.
“So it’s just another step, a big one, unbelievably big, but not the only thing I want to talk to the boys about when I meet them in 20 years’ time.”
On Pep Guardiola
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He's an exceptional guy.. I really like the family and I respect him a lot. We usually don't have contact over the season. He's a competitor and wants to win and accepts when he has lost. I had to learn (about losing) that more often than him.
On AFCON postponement
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"I really like that AFCON is postponed but what I don't like is the reasons for it," he said. "From the planning point of view it makes sense. All these tournaments in the middle of the season are not good for any planning.
"So yes, it is good for us, but it is not something we celebrate."
"So yes, it is good for us, but it is not something we celebrate."
On City
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“[It will be] intense. I saw City playing now three times, and they looked like City looks- massively dominate, making the pitch big, using direction, mix-up of long balls to prepare the small space and the other way around so it’s football,” Klopp said during his pre-match press conference.
“You cannot defend City if you don’t play an intense game and I think it’s difficult to defend us if you don’t play an intense game so that already makes clear how this game will be.
“I don’t see a game where two teams are not active and two teams are waiting for the final whistle, this will be a proper football game 100 percent – it will always be a proper football game for whatever reason it’s no need to be a final or something else.
“0-0 would be an unlikely result, we had one but [it is] unlikely.”
“You cannot defend City if you don’t play an intense game and I think it’s difficult to defend us if you don’t play an intense game so that already makes clear how this game will be.
“I don’t see a game where two teams are not active and two teams are waiting for the final whistle, this will be a proper football game 100 percent – it will always be a proper football game for whatever reason it’s no need to be a final or something else.
“0-0 would be an unlikely result, we had one but [it is] unlikely.”
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