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Jurgen Klopp wants Liverpool to be awarded the three points if their game with Manchester United on Monday at Old Trafford is called off due to fan protests.
United supporter group ‘The 1958’ this week announced plans to protest against the “vile ownership” and show the Glazer family “this time it will not blow over.”
Fan protests ahead of the game between the two clubs in May 2021, when fans gained access to the stadium despite the game being scheduled behind closed doors due to COVID-19 protocols, caused the contest to be postponed, with Liverpool winning the rearranged fixture 4-2 a week and a half later.
When asked at a press conference on Friday if the club has made plans for a similar situation on Monday, Klopp said: “Yeah, we will get on the bus and go home.
“I really hope it doesn’t happen but if it happens I think we should get the points. We have nothing to do with the situation. If that happens the supporters want the game to not happen then we cannot just rearrange the game again and fit it in somewhere in an incredibly busy [calendar].
“I don’t think and really hope this will not happen. I have no idea what could happen, I don’t think about it. Hopefully, we are fine, we go there, play the game and go home. But if, and I think always in this situation like this, the other team should get the points because they have nothing to do with it. They have prepared for it.”
Neither side has won a game yet this season after two matches each, with Liverpool drawing twice and United losing both matches.
Questions are already being asked about whether new Red Devils boss Erik ten Hag will be able to get his team to play his pressing style effectively, and Klopp refused to comment on a query about if United’s squad would be capable of adapting.
However, he did provide some insight to his own experience when he arrived at Liverpool in October 2015, citing his first game in charge – a goalless draw at Tottenham.
“I loved our first game,” he reminisced. “We had two days. It was a Saturday game so the players came back from internationals on the Wednesday, and we had Thursday, Friday, not really to train, to recover and then to have one session.
“For the first impression of an idea, it was outstanding. I still can see Adam Lallana flying around and pressing everybody who had a different shirt, so that was really cool. A cool first sign for me, yeah, but that’s it.”
