Klopp won’t show Kop flops Villa video nasty
JURGEN KLOPP will not put his Liverpool players through the torment of rewatching their 7-2 mauling at Aston Villa.
But the Kop boss has urged his men to get revenge today for their embarrassing defeat in October.
Liverpool host Villa today looking to earn their first win at Anfield in 2021 and keep alive their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
But Klopp sees no reason to show his squad a repeat of the defeat earlier this season to inspire them.
He said: “We watched these spoke about why things happened that night.
“Since then, everything has changed so it makes no sense to go back and talk about these things. They are normal football things.
“It doesn’t help to watch the goals again. If it helped then I would be the first person to show them.
“We have to different things.
“Sometimes you have to show bad things to make the boys, or people in general, remember some things.
“I don’t think I’ve done that too often in my life but it might be the right way some times.
“But I’m 100 per cent sure this time it’s not the right thing.” Liverpool’s embarrassing defeat came just before Virgil van Dijk suffered a season-ending injury, so it was a huge shock as they let in seven goals for the first time since way back in 1963.
At the time it was just their third league loss in almost two years as
Klopp said they needed a “smack think about goals again after the game. We in the face”. But they have suffered eight more league defeats since and now need three points to keep on the tails of the top four rather than in pursuit of defending their title as champions.
Klopp said: “Of course we have to put things right.
“But we had to put things right a few days after that game, a week after it, three weeks after it.
“Things like this shouldn’t happen but it happened to us. It was a really strange game, obviously.
“I have the game in my mind. Which way I will use it, I haven’t decided yet but we have to put things right, for sure.”
Sadio Mane missed that game back in October as he had Covid-19 and he has scored only four league goals since and just one since the turn of the year.
Klopp has put it down to confidence more than a physical issue due to the demands on the Senegal ace this season.
He said: “There is no physical problem for Sadio, not a real one – we all need breaks from time to time, that is clear – but it’s not a general problem.
“It’s just the situation. If you don’t score for a while, then strikers start thinking.”