Jurgen Klopp wary of Huddersfield

Jurgen Klopp will not be underestimating Huddersfield Town this weekend as he believes they can cause a problem or two against his own side.

The Reds travel to John Smith’s Stadium on Saturday looking to continue their unbeaten run in the Premier League, but Klopp is adamant his team have to be prepared, despite the fact Huddersfield have only gained three points from the opening eight games.

Klopp keeps a close eye on Huddersfield as he holds a strong friendship with the manager David Wagner, as they were teammates at FSV Mainz in the early 1990s.

“I watch them more because I want to see how David is doing,” Klopp told the official website of the club.

“It’s a typical football thing – I heard a few people talking about Huddersfield: ‘Not good enough here, not good enough there, they have to score more.’ They had more possession against Tottenham than Tottenham. Not a lot of teams can say that about themselves. At Burnley they had more possession.

“They play proper football, they are difficult to catch. They play different systems. So far it was unlucky.

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HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND – Tuesday, January 30, 2018: Liverpool’s manager Jürgen Klopp reacts during the FA Premier League match between Huddersfield Town FC and Liverpool FC at the John Smith’s Stadium. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)

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“This game is a trap, a 100 per cent trap.

“We are third with 20 points, they are pretty much bottom of the table. That’s why analysis is so important; if you only used the table to analyse a team, you would say ‘They don’t score a lot, they conceded a few and they are third from the bottom so obviously not a good football team.’ Then we’d have a big problem.

“But, thank God, we have a lot of people working on analysis, not only against PSG or whatever. That’s good, so we have all the information we need.”

Klopp also added that his team have to deal with the electric atmosphere that the Huddersfield supporters can create if they want to leave the ground with all three points.

“We know it will be a tough one,” he said.

“At home especially, they are unbelievably lively, the mood in the club is still really good, you can see in the stadium the atmosphere is good. Obviously the people of Huddersfield don’t forget it is a special story they write – and special stories have some ups and downs.

“At the moment, results-wise there were a few downs, but performance-wise they were stronger than last year and that makes it more difficult.”

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