George Baker
Jurgen Klopp puts faith in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to help Liverpool
According to Irish Independent, Jurgen Klopp hopes that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can help Liverpool qualify for the Champions League. The Reds manager sympathised with Solskjaer over the schedule handed to United where three games are to be played within five days.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester United bore the brunt of a rescheduled Liverpool game as they were assigned three league games within a space of five days. The first of them, Aston Villa were defeated yesterday, with Leicester to follow on Tuesday and Liverpool on Thursday.
Solskjaer has mathematically ensured that United will be playing the Champions League next season and still have four games in hand. However, with so many games in such a short time span, the manager has spoken about playing a weaker team against either Leicester or Liverpool.
Leicester are no pushovers and Liverpool are fierce rivals. Jurgen Klopp came out in support of the United manager over the fixture congestion. But he gave some hint that Liverpool’s top-four hopes will be dependent on United’s team selection in the next two games.
“I think we would have played the strongest United team possible on the original date, so that’s what we expect. Nothing else. If Man United is doing it like that, we cannot change that. I think Man United has only just good players.
If I think about the players they could play, they have a really strong side available – pretty good. They might be young but they are good. I expect a strong team against us – and what they do in other games, we obviously have no influence.”
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Leicester might just be the game where Solskjaer could decide to rest his players to keep them fit and fresh for the Liverpool game, and no one can blame him for that. Liverpool are still in with a chance but they will need United to win against Leicester if they are to climb up the table.
