Premier League much tougher than La Liga – Klopp
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes
the Premier League is the toughest
European league to achieve success in.
Spanish teams have dominated European
football in recent years winning the last
three Champions League and Europa
League titles.
Klopp, who has just begun his first full
season in charge at Liverpool, puts this
down to the amount of competitive teams
in England and the volume of games. And
he also highlighted the games played
over the Christmas period — not saying
that there should not be games, more the
number of them.
He told the Daily Mail: “Play on December
24, play on December 26, I love my family
but for me I prefer to play football. But
then we play December 28 and 31, and
January 2 and I am thinking: ‘OK, now we
need three teams for this.'”
He added: “The biggest difference
between England and the others is that
the competition is always so hard. So,
yes, you can play three games if you have
teams with special ability, like Manchester
City or Manchester United — two teams
and let them play.
“The big difference to Spain is that
Barcelona can play 50 percent of their
games with Team B; or there are games
where Lionel Messi runs 4.3 kilometres
but scores five goals. That’s a recovery
session. England has no recovery session,
in absolutely any game.
“You can win, you can win high if you
break them at a specific point, but until
that point it is always hard, hard, hard. So
you get three games, 26th, 28th, 31st, at
the highest intensity. Not one second of
recovery.”
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