Liverpool have had four red cards already this season - but Klopp won't warn his stars about their discipline ahead of Everton's visit
Jurgen Klopp will not consider asking his players to be wary of discipline ahead of the Merseyside derby, despite a controversial rash of red cards this season.
One, for Alexis Mac Allister, was overturned, another red for two yellows picked up by Diogo Jota was wrong but couldn’t be overturned, and a third for an innocuous challenge by Curtis Jones resulted in a ridiculously harsh three-game ban. Yet in Klopp’s first full five seasons in charge at Anfield, his team topped the Premier League Fair Play table, and were second the season after.
Klopp though, is adamant that despite the tough calls which have constantly gone against his side this season, he can NOT ask his players to adapt their behaviour, even for the notoriously combustible Mersey derby. No English game has seen more red cards, with an astonishing 20 players sent off in the past 25 years, but Klopp insisted: “No we can not take the ways things have been into account - no. I don’t think you can.
Klopp is certain three of four Liverpool red cards should not have been brandished this season, and he believes his side are the fairest in the league…with history backing him up. “If you want to have a look into it, you will see in my eight years here, before we were five or six times we won the Fair Play competition. So we didn’t get but we got the least yellow, the least red. I think two or three times we won that competition in Europe.
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