Liverpool vs Manchester City: Jurgen Klopp's Press Conference
George Priestman reporting for LiverpoolWorld.
George Priestman reporting for LiverpoolWorld.
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00:00 This is George Priest from Fort Liverpool World reporting ahead of what is a huge clash in the
00:04 Premier League between Liverpool and Manchester City. Jürgen Klopp has just spoken to the media
00:08 ahead of that game and revealed the latest team news which includes Ibrahima Kunate who came off
00:12 as an injury doubt last night in the win over Sparta Prague. Now Klopp said he doesn't know
00:16 whether he'll be fit for this game as the results of the scan haven't come back yet so he's a key
00:20 doubt for Liverpool considering just how strong him and Van Dijk have been together this season.
00:25 It is going to be a big miss if he doesn't play but one of Joe Gomez or Joel Quanto will be
00:29 available to fill in if he can't make it. In terms of other injury news Salah is raring to go after
00:35 coming off the bench against Sparta Prague and Liverpool are still without the long list of Trent
00:39 Alexander-Arnold, Diego Jota, Curtis Jones, Ryan Gravenberch and Alisson Becker and of course is
00:45 the long-term absentees of Thiago, Gerald Matip, Stefan Persetic and Ben Doak. But Liverpool will
00:52 be able to feel the very strong side and Manchester City will be able to do the same as well they will
00:56 only be missing Jack Grealish and potentially Jeremy Doaku but Mateus Nunes as well who suffered
01:01 a freak finger injury in the win over FC Copenhagen on Wednesday but they still will be able to field
01:07 a very strong side with the likes of Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva
01:11 and many others as well so it's going to be a very very high level game. Klopp was asked about
01:16 whether this game would be a title decider and he laughed off such claims saying that no one's
01:19 going to be popping the champagne bottles as Liverpool do manage to get three points on Sunday.
01:23 Of course there are still 10 games to play after this and then Manchester City will welcome Arsenal
01:29 to the Etihad next week as well so it's a big week and a half, two weeks for the teams that are top
01:34 of the table in terms of big games but of course there's still games against Aston Villa and
01:38 Tottenham to go for Liverpool and they've got all the other cup competitions that they are involved
01:42 in which will take their interest away from the Premier League and of course with the injuries
01:46 they do have there is still plenty to play for so title races will not be decided in this one game
01:51 this weekend but of course it's a great chance for either side to take points off each other
01:55 and a win against Manchester City will put Liverpool four points clear of their rivals which
02:01 would be obviously a huge bonus at this point of the season. Earlier on in the season the two sides
02:05 met at the Etihad Stadium where they shared the points in a one-all draw. Erling Haaland scored
02:10 the opener before Trent Alexander-Arnold hit back with a late strike to earn a late point
02:15 and obviously without him it would be a big miss but Liverpool have a great record at Anfield when
02:20 it comes to face in Manchester City they are unbeaten in nine of their last ten winning
02:24 seven of them but nine of the last ten games in all competitions have seen both teams score so
02:28 it could be a very high energy high scoring affair between two sides with a lot of quality
02:33 on the pitch. As Klopp said in his press conference this is perhaps the game of the
02:38 weekend anywhere in Europe and it will certainly be one of the games that you just cannot miss
02:41 these days Liverpool and Manchester City bring out the best in each other it's Klopp versus
02:45 Guarliola it could be the last time we see Klopp against Guarliola so it's definitely one of those
02:50 games that you just cannot miss and at Anfield it never seems to disappoint.