Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has come out to complain about the playing surface at the Stade de France ahead of Saturday’s UCL final. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he believes it was an interesting idea to lay a new pitch less than 72 hours before kick-off in Paris, and it definitely doesn’t look perfect at first glance.
Klopp added that one would think that the pitch for the highly anticipated UCL final should be top class, but that is not the case.
His words, “I don’t know how bad or good it is, I only saw it,”
“The refs were training on it and I saw the ball bouncing.”
“Maybe it’s perfect, but it looks not perfect. I hope no one makes a story about ‘Klopp moaning about the pitch.’ I’m fine.”
“This pitch is new since yesterday, which is not the best news. But it will be the same for both teams. You can see the lines where they put the pieces of the pitch [together], which is what we aren’t used to.”
“That someone thought it was a good idea to bring the pitch the day before to the stadium is an interesting idea. But it didn’t kill my mood a percent. I am really happy we are here, I would have played the game on pétanque.”
On the teams, “I think both teams are technical teams and you would wish in a dream world that the pitch is the best you ever saw in your life,”
“That’s obviously not the case. You will hear the same from Carlo [Ancelotti]. Definitely if you win you don’t care about the pitch, that is easy to say.”
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