Facing Klopp’s Liverpool Was A Nightmare – Pep Guardiola

Former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said that facing Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool was a nightmare for him. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

In an interview with Oasis musician Noel Gallagher on the club’s website, Pep stated that he had nothing but respect for his German counterpart when they were going head-to-head in the EPL.

Guardiola added that he plans to meet up with Klopp now that they’ve both moved on from management.

His words, “For the quality of the opponent we faced, we faced a lot but Liverpool was a nightmare. Every time, it was a nightmare.

It [the relationship] was really good. It has always has been really good, even back in Germany. We faced each other a lot of times when he was at Dortmund.

We have not been for dinner once but now it is going to happen.

The relationship is one of the things I am proud of the most, I would say.

They were really, really good first of all. But in the moment when they faced us they know that is the game that is the best of them and the best at Anfield.

Anfield has a history that no stadium has. Few teams can win in Anfield. It’s a really tough place for me for the fact of the way they play, not just for the stadium.

They were a special team. You sleep one second and they will punish you. The margins like that, it could have happened to us.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.