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Klopp: No striker is no problem for champions
JURGEN KLOPP has shared his relief over Manchester City’s failure to land an out-and-out striker this summer. The Premier League champions have opted to use a ‘false nine’ this season after being priced out of a move for Tottenham’s Harry Kane.
But Klopp is thankful that Pep Guardiola’s attacking arsenal was not added to and said: “I know they didn’t score 500 goals and the whole world is talking about they need a number nine.
“Yeah, imagine if they had a number nine on top of that! It’s a luxury problem, let me say it like this.
“It was like that last year
and then
Ilkay Gundogan arrived like 500 times in the box and scored from close range.
“If in football it would be that easy – mark the number nine and he cannot score, that would be really great!
“It is the decisive area in and around the box where City traditionally, at least since I’m in England, always have enough options.which number they have on their back is really not important.
“They bring in players in all the moments. I don’t know how many goals City scored from close range with a square ball in the six-yard box.
“So you would think playing against City, the whole world is defending against City, so there is one area where always a defender or more than one defender should be – that is in their own six-yard box. But in the end they just square the ball and at the second post is completely free.
“And that’s not because all the other teams are dumb, it is because they do it really well. They pass the ball at the right moment.the positioning is close to perfect.”