Klopp on La Liga's weakness & Barcelona 'yawning' at Wembley
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp shares Jose Mourinho’s opinion. The German manager has highlighted the level of the Premier League, placing it above La Liga, as Manchester United manager Mourinho has done previously.
If Mourinho said that the level of competitive football in La Liga is low in comparison to the Premier League, Klopp’s expressed a similar viewpoint. He’s done so in an interview with British newspaper the Daily Mail.
“The biggest difference between England and the others is that the competition is always so hard,” the former Borussia Dortmund coach said.
“The big difference to Spain is that Barcelona can play 50 per cent of their games with Team B; or there are games where Lionel Messi runs 4.3 kilometres but scores five goals. That’s a recovery session. England has no recovery session, in absolutely any game.”
In the same interview, Klopp also spoke about Liverpool’s pre-season thrashing of Barcelona.
He said: “Barcelona are different. They play all over, they go to so many places they don’t know where they are. We played them in London. In the tunnel, they were like, this, (he mimes yawning and stretching, looking around, “Oh, this is Wembley, nice”) and, yes, we beat them. Yet in that match they could have scored five goals.”
