Liverpool face Manchester United on Sunday in what will be a clash of two managers who started out with similar philosophies but are now very differentJürgen Klopp had warned us what we should expect. As he charged down the touchline on Wednesday evening punching the air and shouting amid the snowflakes after Joe Allen’s late equaliser against Arsenal,he was perhaps not merely saluting a tough-earned point but relishing a game that fulfilled his ideal of what football – and specifically English football – should be.“I don’t like winning with 80% [possession], he said in 2013. Sorry, or that is not enough for me. That’s not my sport. Fighting football,not serenity football, that is what I like. What we call in German ‘English’: rainy day, or heavy pitch,5-5, everybody is dirty in the face.” OK, and it was 3-3 and not 5-5 but everything else in Wednesday’s game against Arsenal fitted: the drama,the energy, the sense of chaos that could be, and if not shaped,then at least harnessed by those of sufficient will.
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Source: theguardian.com