Keep a lid on it warns Klopp
POLICE have offered support to referee Michael Oliver and his wife Lucy after they were threatened on social media following Real Madrid’s Champions League showdown with Juventus last Wednesday.
Oliver, right, awarded Real a stoppage-time penalty from which they secured a 4-3 aggregate win and a semi-final place. JURGEN KLOPP has warned his players not to get carried away after reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League.
The Liverpool manager revealed he and the squad went for their usual gameday walk near the team hotel before Saturday’s 3-0 win against Bournemouth.
And he admitted all the players and staff were struck by the elation among fans ahead of the clash with Roma as they dream of a sixth European crown. “The mood is so positive in Liverpool,” said Klopp. “We had a walk in the city and it kind of felt like a parade already.
“People were clapping their hands and beeping their horn and shouting, ‘Well done’. We still had to play Bournemouth. We know it was good but the next game needs to be good as well. That’s quite a challenge for the human side of us. The boys did really well.”
Liverpool travel to West Brom on Sunday needing two wins from four matches to qualify for the Champions League next season. JAY RODRIGUEZ says “the truth always comes out” after a Football Association charge of racially abusing Brighton’s Gaetan Bong was deemed ‘not proven’ by an Independent Regulatory Commission. West Brom’s Rodriguez, left, said: “It has been a difficult period because this allegation brought a damaging slur on my character.” ●BORUSSIA DORTMUND believe Michy Batshuayi could still make Belgium’s World Cup squad, despite the Chelsea loanee suffering an ankle injury.