Suara.com – Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp apparently has not been able to move on from his team’s defeat in last season’s Champions League final to Real Madrid. The pain of the 0-1 defeat at the top of the party is still felt by the coach from Germany.
Klopp admitted that he was tormented by seeing the footage of the match ahead of the meeting between the two teams on Wednesday (22/2/2023) in the morning WIB.
Yes, Liverpool will indeed meet Real Madrid again, this time in the last 16 of the 2022/2023 Champions League. For the first leg, The Reds — nicknamed Liverpool — will host Real Madrid at Anfield this morning.
After the defeat in last season’s final, Klopp admitted he was reluctant to see the footage of the match because he thought Liverpool had played well, but in the end Real Madrid emerged victorious through a single goal by Vinicius Junior.
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Last weekend, continued Klopp, he had just watched the footage of the match against Real Madrid again. The 55-year-old coach from Germany admitted that he had no other choice but to watch the footage for analysis.
“I haven’t watched it since the end of May 2022 until last weekend. The thing I realized right away is now I know why I didn’t watch it again, but I had to,” Klopp said as reported by the Liverpool Echo, Tuesday (21/2/2023).
“It was torture, because we played a good game and should have been able to win the match. It was very painful for all of us at Liverpool,” continued the former Borussia Dortmund coach.
“I watched it myself. I watched the (recording) of the game back to know exactly what to do, and we have to win this game,” said Klopp.
Klopp himself predicts that the home match against Real Madrid will be fierce at Anfield.
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“Real Madrid is one of the biggest clubs in the world, one of the most successful for sure, winning this competition. I don’t know how often, very experienced,” said Klopp.
“I’m sure the match will be very difficult, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for us to win,” he said.
