We Are Focused On Champions League Not Man City Match-Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp said his team is not bothered about their weekend match with Manchester City in the English Premier League.

The German said Sunday’s top-of-the-table meeting between the teams in the Premier League will not deflect attention from the visit of Genk.

“The story the boys wrote in the past three years was only possible because we were always focused on the next game,” said Klopp.

“No-one thinks, and I don’t have to tell them, ‘City is on Sunday, tomorrow is Genk’.

“We have bigger ambitions in this competition than Tuesday night so we have to be 100% spot on.

“I don’t doubt my players at all. I would feel a bit embarrassed if I had to tell them ‘don’t think about Man City already’.”

The omens for Genk’s trip to Anfield are not promising. They have conceded five goals in each of their past three Champions League away games, the first team to record such an unwanted sequence since 1992-93.

Liverpool have scored four goals in their past two Champions League matches and only three teams have scored four times in three consecutive games (Liverpool in December 2007, Paris St-Germain in November 2017 and Real Madrid in September 2014).