{"id":113409,"date":"2019-05-03T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=113409"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:23:00","slug":"champions-league-mourinho-sends-message-to-klopp-ahead-of-barcelona-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=113409","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Mourinho sends message to Klopp ahead of Barcelona second leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Champions-League-Mourinho-sends-message-to-Klopp-ahead-of-Barcelona-second-leg.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has told Jurgen Klopp to believe in the impossible when Liverpool look to overturn a 3-0 first-leg deficit in next week\u2019s Champions League clash with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds were blown away at the Nou Camp on Wednesday, thanks to goals from former striker Luis Suarez and a Lionel Messi brace.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp\u2019s men also missed a late chance to grab an away goal, when Mohamed Salah hit the post.<\/p>\n<p>Although Mourinho admits the huge task that awaits Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday, he has urged the side to go into the match believing they can turn it around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Klopp] has to think that anything is possible in football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has to think what I know he thinks \u2013 he has a very good team. He has a real team and they are going to fight until the possible is impossible,\u201d Mourinho told RT.<\/p>\n<p>On Liverpool\u2019s chances of progressing, he continued: \u201cWhen the result was 2-0, I was thinking it\u2019s open. When they miss the late chance for the 3-1, I would say open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 3-0 is 3-0, it\u2019s hard to believe, but Barcelona have an incredibly negative experience with Roma recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that Liverpool at Anfield is really hard, the team is good, but if Barcelona score one goal they have to concede five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s too much and I think the team has that appetite. Messi is dragging everyone with him with that appetite to make it happen. I think Barcelona has it.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has told Jurgen Klopp to believe in the impossible when Liverpool look to overturn a 3-0 first-leg deficit in next week\u2019s Champions League clash with Barcelona. The Reds were blown away at the Nou Camp on Wednesday, thanks to goals from former striker Luis Suarez and a Lionel Messi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7414,3367],"class_list":["post-113409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-liverpool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}