I Told Salah To Not Defend Vs Sparta Prague – Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has come out to say that he told Mohamed Salah to stop defending during their 6-1 Europa League demolition of Sparta Prague. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he told the Egyptian forward that since he might have to play the full game last night, he should focus on his attacking duties, instead of tracking back.

Klopp added that Salah is a very experienced player, so he had no problems adjusting to that instruction.

His words, “I’m not sure what happened to Kostas, I’m sure that he will be fine though. For Bobby like I said he felt something, but it was intense for the boy, he was running around like crazy. Let’s hope that’s nothing.

Besides that the subs for Joe [Gomez] was a precaution, Wataru [Endo] was a precaution, David was a precaution. And Mo already recovered in the second half so all good.

Mo is a very experienced player, I told him if he has to stay on then he may have to play the full game. He did and it was the first time I told someone to stop defending. He actually then nearly made another goal but Cody was offside. He’s very experienced so he got easily over the line.

He [Clark] played incredibly. It was his first goal but he won the ball back after another one. He is the one I am worried a bit about, we wanted to take off Mo [Salah], but Bobby sits on the ground and says he feels something in the ankle. Hopefully, it is nothing. The steps the boy made though, pfff [wow].

We’ve had such a difficult situation with all the injuries and then the boys stepped in and took their chances. So very happy with that, they were exceptional again.”