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Jurgen Klopp has sights on Premier League points record

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has challenged his players to win all nine of their remaining matc...



Jurgen Klopp has sights on Pre...
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Jurgen Klopp has sights on Premier League points record

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has challenged his players to win all nine of their remaining matches when the Premier League season resumes.

As it stands, the Merseysiders need six points to win the club's first top-flight title in thirty years although that task could be made a little easier if second placed Manchester City slip-up against Arsenal when the season resumes on 17 June.

If they manage to seal the title in their first game back away to Everton or at home against Crystal Palace, (venues to be confirmed), there will be no supporters there to celebrate but Klopp is prepared to put the party on hold for now.

"It wasn't like that when you thought about it. But that cannot be changed now. Why should we now make a big deal about something that can't be changed?" Klopp told Sky Germany.

"There comes a day when life will get back to normal. When someone has found the vaccine, when someone has found a solution to the problem, when infection rates are zero or below - that day will come eventually.

"Then we have the right to celebrate what we want to celebrate on that day. If this is the 12th or 13th matchday of next season and we want to celebrate it - who is going to stop it?

"Then we still have the trophy and then we can drive it around town and stand on the bus. If other people then think that we are completely crazy, I honestly don't care.

"Can it then still be a special celebration? No question. It's different, but different is sometimes absolutely okay."

There will be 27 points on offer for the Reds when they come back and if they were to claim them all, it would see them reach an incredible final tally of 109 points.

Manchester City hold the record of 100 points, achieved in the 2017/18 season, and the Liverpool boss is pushing his players to try and beat City's century total.

"The problem at the moment is that we still have to become one (champions)," Klopp said

"I am not sitting here and want to doubt that, but I also know that we want to win football matches and not only two, but if possible nine.

"This can become historic, I have to say so clearly. And not only club historical, but historical in general.

"We have the chance to get an unbelievable number of points and so we prepare ourselves and then we will see what comes out of it."

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