Jurgen Klopp says intense schedule is taking its toll on Liverpool – ‘they are pretty much sleeping on massage beds’
- While Liverpool is playing barely three days after 120 intense minutes against Chelsea, Southampton will have had 10 days since its most recent game
- ‘They’ll be completely fresh,’ Klopp said. ‘Southampton is a really well-drilled team, full of energy … and playing their last home game of the season’
Liverpool is heading into the 61st game of a potentially history-making season and the intensity of the schedule is taking its toll on the players.
“They are pretty much sleeping on their massage beds,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said Monday.
The problem is, the games are getting bigger and bigger for Klopp’s team. And staying in contention for an unprecedented quadruple of major trophies is getting harder and harder.
It’s two down, two to go for Liverpool after winning the FA Cup on Saturday – in a penalty shoot-out against Chelsea – to add to its League Cup triumph from February. The team is already booked in for the Champions League final against Real Madrid on May 28.
Attaining the third leg of the quadruple before that is the toughest ask, simply because the Premier League title is out of Liverpool’s hands with Manchester City four points clear heading into the final week of the campaign.