Jürgen Klopp said Champions League qualification meant everything
Stolmy Pimentel Womens Jersey to Liverpool as he celebrated the “thunderstorm” that swept aside Hoffenheim in the play-off second leg at Anfield. Liverpool secured their return to the European elite, and a fifth place for a Premier League team in this season’s competition, with three goals in the opening 21 minutes against Julian Nagelsmann’s adventurous but exposed side. Goals from Emre Can (2), Mohamed Salah and the outstanding Roberto Firmino gave Liverpool a 6-3 aggregate win with Klopp claiming his team’s start to the game took Hoffenheim completely by surprise. Liverpool return to group stages after early flurry sinks Hoffenheim Read more “The start of the game was like a thunderstorm,” the Liverpool manager said. “If you win away 2-1 in the first leg the opponent can imagine that you will sit back and wait to counter attack in the second leg. We thought it would make sense to do it differently, with high pressure. We did it really well. The football we played was really fantastic. Usually after 3-0 that early it’s normal that there is a little break. I don’t like it but it’s normal. “Nagelsmann brought on another striker, took off a centre-back. That’s already brave. They could have conceded more goals. We also had one or two situations. This game was crazy, it could have ended 9-7 but even then we would have been in the group stage so it was deserved.” Asked what it meant to compete in the lucrative group stage of Europe’s premier competition, Klopp replied: “Yippee! It means everything. It’s what we worked for in the last 14 months. We wanted to be a part of the Champions
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http://www.officialmarinershop.com/Felix_Hernandez_Jerseystand up for themselves because they think it will affect their careers. Local football federations and sports ministers must lay down the law and protect the players.” “Even in Western Europe it is very hard for players in lower divisions. People think Europe is the holy grail but a lot of lower league players are suffering. It’s a cruel world. Only the strongest survive. The richest clubs should help the poorer clubs. There’s an imbalance in the money.” Neymar set to seal world-record move to PSG worth ?450m in fees and wages Read more The inequality in the game has at least caught the attention of Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin, who says he is considering the introduction of a salary cap to close the gap between football’s richest clubs and the rest. Speaking earlier this summer Ceferin warned that the wealth gap was “increasing dangerously” and that something would have to be done. “In future, we will have to take into serious consideration the possibility of limiting clubs’ budgets for players’ wages,” he said. “The wealthiest clubs are only getting richer and the gap between them and the rest is getting bigger. If we succeed it will, in my opinion, be an historic change.” Ceferin’s words came before Paris Saint-Germain signed Neymar for ?197m and bumped his wages up to ?520,000 a week. You wonder what Vukovic and Low feel when they see a fellow professional earning more in a month than they will make in their entire careers. As Low says: “We
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