{"id":168974,"date":"2023-12-21T03:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=168974"},"modified":"2023-12-21T03:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:33:58","slug":"if-youre-not-in-right-shape-give-away-your-ticket-says-klopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/if-youre-not-in-right-shape-give-away-your-ticket-says-klopp\/","title":{"rendered":"‘If you’re not in right shape, give away your ticket,’ says Klopp"},"content":{"rendered":"
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has told any supporter “not in the right shape” for Saturday’s top-of-the-table Premier League encounter with leaders Arsenal to give their ticket to someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n Klopp – whose side are a point behind the Gunners – criticised the Anfield atmosphere during Wednesday’s 5-1 Carabao Cup quarter-final win over West Ham.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Reds galloped to their joint-biggest win of the season to book a two-legged last-four encounter with Fulham.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet, despite goals for his side from Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah and Curtis Jones, who scored twice, Klopp felt the atmosphere inside the stadium was flat.<\/span><\/p>\n That was even though it was just the second time there were 57,000 present after the opening of the upper tier of the Anfield Road Stand.<\/span><\/p>\n After Sunday’s goalless draw with Manchester United, television pundit Gary Neville said: “The atmosphere was the worst I’ve seen at Anfield ever.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’ve always been complimentary of Liverpool fans. It’s the biggest crowd they’ve had here in 60 or 70 years but it’s the quietest crowd I’ve seen in this game.”<\/span><\/p>\n And Klopp was no more complimentary after the win over West Ham.<\/span><\/p>\n “In the first half, when the boys played exceptionally, I was not overly happy with the atmosphere behind me,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n “I asked people: ‘What do they want?’ We changed a lot of things and we dominated West Ham like crazy and missed chances. If I was in the stands, I would be on my toes, 1,000%.<\/span><\/p>\n “I don’t know if the Man United game was that bad that we have to say sorry we didn’t smash them?”<\/span><\/p>\n