Liverpool boss Klopp 'uncomfortable' about Merseyside derby record as he names six Everton stars to watch

Liverpool honcho Jurgen Klopp recommends he locates it “awkward” to listen to about his terrific record in Merseyside derbies in floater of their match against Everton on Saturday.

Klopp has single bygone one of his 18 Merseyside derby complements filching into consideration that finalizing upwards with Liverpool in 2015 with the Reds devised for to bested the Toffees at Anfield over the weekend.

Liverpool are currently 4th, three junctures off the Premier League top, while Everton are battling it out at the unalike other expire of the table with seven junctures from 8 complements.

On his record against Everton, Klopp oriented benefactors on Friday: “It is awkward once you educate me about my record. I couldn’t be less fascinated in what taken place in yesteryear. We aren’t surmising about this; we become aware the prominence of the video game, the strain. I can’t remember reaping the envisioned a derby.

“There is numerous severity before a ball is kicked. We have to avenue that in the proper locales, with unanimously the auxiliary recommendations from exterior, offer sure you tinker the way you want. That supplies you a opportunity to win.”

On the derby, Klopp added: “It is a distinctive video game, a high-strain video game. With one voice the gamers are granted to the kind of video game. We shouldn’t offer it also generous for the brand name-new-made gamers; they are unanimously ascertained for it.

As shortly as quized what he supposes from the match, the Liverpool honcho reoccured:  “With one voice the [previous derby] galleries were perplexing for different justifications. Everton is in a comprehensive minute, for three or 4 weeks they’ve obtained upshots. It is translucent. Burnley in their ideal moments was a extremely perplexing team to tinker and you can investigate again identical things [from Sean Dyche]. It will be a perplexing one; derbies are perplexing, Premier League galleries are perplexing.

“Dominic Calvert-Lewin is an awfully valuable player for them, [Abdoulaye] Doucoure is earlier to his ideal, with [Jack] Harrison and [Dwight] McNeil on the wings. That is amenity, real amenity. [Amadou] Onana, [James] Garner], there is real talent; they have fiascoes in protection. They have a actually comprehensive team.”

As shortly as quized about an improve on Andy Robertson’s injury, Klopp responded: “The choice will go in the instruction of surgery. There was a piece opportunity he could try without but, chatting to wizards, surgery will be the ideal point long term. He is out for a while.”

On unalike other subordinates, Klopp said:  “Diogo [Jota] is comfortably accessible again. Cody [Gakpo] trained as shortly as, so we will investigate. Stefan [Bajcetic] is out, Thiago [Alcantara] is out. Ben Doak has a piece muscle cells point, he is not comfortably accessible.”