Jurgen Klopp: The Pandemic is Making This Year my toughest Season

DBasia.news – Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp expressed himself2 regarding his career during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jurgen Klopp fears this season will be the toughest for him, as Liverpool faces a unique challenge in defending their Premier League title in the coronavirus era.

Having been delayed by three months, last season’s Premier League competition began with a busy schedule. The delay also caused the start of the season to be delayed. In other words, the match agenda for the 2020-21 season is increasing.

Liverpool have already felt the impact of the changing agenda due to the pandemic with the downfall of several players like Joel Matip, Naby Keita and Thiago Alcantara who were absent from the Champions League match against Ajax as a precaution. Meanwhile, Jordan Henderson, who is in the recovery process, is still undergoing playing restrictions.

In the match against Ajax, Klopp also made three substitutions, something he never did. Klopp pulled out Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.

“The challenges will be greater. Right now the challenges are actually big,” Klopp said as quoted by the Independent.

“Life is more challenging than I’ve ever felt before. In football it’s not that different.”

“We need help from all parties so that the players can get through all this. We have had many discussions with the club’s medical team.” explained Klopp.

However, Klopp insisted he did not want to complain about the tight schedule. “I have no problem if we have to play again.”

“I’m not going to complain, but we have to make sure the teams that play in the middle of the week don’t play on Saturday afternoon,” added Klopp.