Jurgen Klopp blasts fixture schedule that sees his Liverpool side play Southampton three days after FA Cup final

Jurgen Klopp has once again railed at the fixture chaos wrought on his Liverpool team as they continue their bid to land a remarkable quadruple. Liverpool played 120 minutes as they beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final on Saturday, but there was barely a chance for celebration given Tuesday night's Premier League encounter at Southampton. Ad/> The three-day gap comes on the day that the Reds' Champions League final opponents on May 28 — Real Madrid — saw their final La Liga match of the season pushed back to give them more rest ahead of the Paris showpiece.

The Emirates FA CupKlopp 'master of making Liverpool underdogs' — Tuchel14/05/2022 AT 08:58 Klopp, speaking in his pre-match press conference, said: «This is now game 61 [of Liverpool's campaign] so we have to be really careful, that’s clear. “We don’t finish the season tomorrow, that’s not our last game of the season. That would, again, be different.

“When did Southampton have their last game before they play tomorrow? I think it was 10 days [ago] — [that's] long! So it’s completely different. Liverpool fans criticised after jeers and boos for Prince William and national anthem Opinion: Liverpool need to win Champions League for this to be a truly great season “OK, they might lack a little bit of rhythm, but if we make changes we lose that advantage of having rhythm as well. /> “Imagine we go there with eight players who played 120 minutes.

That makes no sense. So that’s why we have to make changes. I don’t know how many, we will see that and I will talk to the players obviously, but that’s tough.