News'If we play, we want to win' - Jürgen Klopp's analysis of padel showdown
Jürgen Klopp provided a little post-match analysis of his and Pepijn Lijnders' recent victory on the padel court over Mohamed Salah and Thiago Alcantara.
The four took to the court following a training session during the Reds' warm-weather camp in Dubai, with the coaching pair coming out on top in an intense battle.
Klopp, a regular player of the sport, revealed to Liverpoolfc.com that the encounter with his No.11 was long in the making and how a rematch could very soon be on the cards.
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The boss said: "The coaches, we play in our spare time – we love it, we just love the game and play it pretty much all the time. We have our average level.
"Mo saw us from time to time playing and wanted to play against us desperately, so we now gave him the chance to play. But I'm not sure he'll want to play again!
"That's not true actually – he asked all the time when we can play again. But it's a wonderful game, we love it.
"When you saw the pictures, it's obviously not high-intense at our level. There are levels where it's incredibly intense but we cannot play that. It was good fun."
He continued: "We are all sportspeople, we are all competitive and if we play something, we want to win.
"For the outside world, we won. It's good to get that message across because I told the LFCTV guys already, I didn't watch the video until the end in the first place but then I thought it looks like we lost.
"But then I saw it again and I saw that they showed we shook hands after we won the game, so it's all fine."
