Klopp’s comments played down by Pep
PEP Guardiola said that Jurgen Klopp’s comments about his City team need some perspective.
The Liverpool manager, whose team could be four points clear at the top of the Premier League with a victory at Molineux last night, praised the defending champions this week and suggested they have no weaknesses.
“They are really, really, really good. I have to respect that,” he said.
“I can’t say that City are lucky here and lucky there. They aren’t. Every matchday, they are spot on.
“They were last year, when they got 100 points, and they stay in that mode. Chapeau.
“I have to say it. There’s no sign of weakness. You watch a game...OK, against Everton, in the first 15 minutes maybe, but it was 12.30pm after a Champions League game, so it was an extended warm-up and there were balls flying around and missed passes.
“But after that, they took charge of the game and won it comfortably. Thank you very much. Next one.
“That’s why I say it. They are the current champions. And they still play like champions. We are all the challengers.”
Guardiola, however, was unsurprisingly unwilling to agree with his counterpart that City do not have weaknesses. “Of course, any team has strong points and weak points so of course we have weaknesses and we are working on it,” he said.
“Of course we have them but that’s normal.
“These kind of comments have to be put in perspective.”