Before meeting at Anfield, Klopp suggested City’s good form was helped by “a two-week break for COVID reasons.”
Pep Guardiola responded to Jurgen Klopp, who stated that Manchester City one “two week break” due to COVID-19 outbreak in the club, pointing out to the Liverpool manager that “You know it’s not true.”
For the meeting at Anfield, Klopp suggested City’s good form was helped by “a two-week break for COVID reasons.”
Actually, the city had eight days between games when his December meeting with Everton was postponed, and Guardiola he said he has plans address comments head-to-head with Klopp when they record it on Sunday.
‘You made a mistake: was it two months off or three months off? [fueron] four. Four months off, ” Guardiola said at a news conference.
“That is why we are currently in top form. Jurgen has to look at the schedule again.
“We had COVID, we have a week and we played with 14 players at Stamford Bridge, but maybe I’m wrong and it wasn’t two weeks, it was three or four weeks. Tomorrow when I see Jurgen, I’ll tell him. : ‘How many weeks or days were we off?’.
‘I’ll tell him tomorrow. He knows it is not true. Come on! Nobody in the Premier League has been off for two weeks. ‘
Guardiola and Klopp know each other well from their time together in the Bundesliga and the technician from city He admitted that he was “surprised” by the words of his colleague.
“I’m not upset, I didn’t expect it, not from him,” Guardiola said.
“I am surprised. I thought that Jurgen was not the type of coach like others who do regularly. I did not expect that comment. But maybe it was a misunderstanding on his part. If you take another look at the calendar. you will realize that they were not two weeks, but two months. “
City visits Liverpool in search of their first win over Anfield since 2003.
The team of Guardiola has won his last 13 games in all competitions and is three points wrong at the top of the rankings. Eredivisie with a pending game.
Meanwhile, the Liverpool affected by injuries has won only three of his last 10 games, but Guardiola was quick to point out that the Klopp had enjoyed one 48 days of summer vacation, while his players had to return afterwards a 37-day break from their Champions League commitments from last season.
“Of course he forgot,” Guardiola said. ‘We haven’t forgotten, but of course they have.
“When it happened, it happened. If you have a lot of COVID cases and injuries in the beginning, when we had COVID for the Everton game, we said, ‘It is what it is.’ ‘We had 14 players and we played [contra Chelsea]”.