Jürgen Klopp has praised his players at English football club Liverpool in the highest tones, but at the same time warned against complacency.
“We always have to fight and not think about how good we could be. We’re not the Harlem Globetrotters,” said the German team manager on Friday: “There are a lot of very good teams we have to compete with.”
Nobody, emphasized Klopp, “is happy to come second. Reaching a final is great. But if you lose it, it’s all worth nothing.”
His current team has a “top squad, the best I’ve ever had,” said Klopp: “But it’s more important to create the right mood in the team and in the stadium to be successful.”
In the Champions League, Liverpool are clearly on course for the quarter-finals after a convincing 2-0 win at Inter Milan, but in the Premier League they still have a long way to go to the championship title.
Manchester City are currently nine points away from Liverpool at the top of the table. “I really don’t give the table constellation a thought at all,” said Klopp. “We have to win our games and then we’ll see if we get closer or not.”