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Jurgen Klopp: The pitch is too big when you face Man City!

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The Reds will host Man City in a crucial Premier League game this weekend.

Jurgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool will have a hard job of controlling Manchester City’s attacking football on Sunday.

The German boss has repeatedly insisted his side are out of this season’s title race. However, that doesn’t take away the pressure of facing “the best team in the world”.

 “It could be [a title decider] this year… just not with us,” Klopp told a press conference on Friday.

“When you play City, the results left and right are not really important. This game requires all your focus, requires all the things you know about football.

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“I enjoy preparing the game really, but it’s the biggest challenge you can face in football.

“Football is all about closing down spaces, closing down players, making challenges in the right areas, these kind of things.

“With City, it’s always: if you close down here, they are there; if you close down that gap, you open up that gap. The pitch is so big, and we have only 10 players to close all the gaps.

“It’s always a challenge. It’s not that we now feel different; it’s a home game, it’s Anfield, it’s us against Man City.

“They are, at the moment, definitely the best football team in the world, that’s how it is. But we will give it a try anyway, knowing there are no guarantees. We get help from a full Anfield and we try to use that.”

Liverpool sit tenth in the Premier League, failing to win any of their last three games. Following a 7-1 win over Rangers in the Champions League, let’s see if Klopp’s men can finally achieve a statement victory in the English top flight.

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