Ahead of tonight’s clash v Arsenal, Liverpool boss urges team to make late bid for EPL Top-4 finish
Liverpool players celebrate a goal against the Wolves in an EPL match last month. Pic/Getty Images
Jurgen Klopp has challenged Liverpool to salvage their troubled Premier League season with a late bid to finish in the Top-4.
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Klopp’s side are languishing in seventh place and sit five points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea in the race to qualify for next season’s Champions League.
The Reds’ win over Wolves before the international break was only their fourth Premier League victory since Christmas during a spell in which they lost eight times. With just nine games remaining—starting with Saturday’s trip to Arsenal—Liverpool boss Klopp knows his team have no margin for error.
“We don’t have a lot of points to waste any more but we have a tough programme on top of that, not only in the Premier League but the Champions League as well,” Klopp said on Friday. “We will not hesitate, we will just go for it and hopefully we can do that on Saturday.
“It is always a challenge for teams after the international break, with players coming back from their countries having played different systems and different match plans.
“We have one session to bring it all together again and that’s a challenge but we are used to it. We know whatever we want for the rest of the season we can only get it if we win football games, and the first one is at Arsenal.”
Klopp has Roberto Firmino back from a knee problem but the form of Diogo Jota, who scored the winner at Wolves and found the net three times in two World Cup qualifiers for Portugal, may keep him out of the side.
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