{"id":69934,"date":"2018-12-15T06:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=69934"},"modified":"2018-12-15T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:57:32","slug":"epl-klopp-speaks-on-mourinho-ahead-of-liverpools-clash-with-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=69934","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Klopp speaks on Mourinho ahead of Liverpool\u2019s clash with Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp has dismissed the idea that Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho lacks ambition ahead of both teams\u2019 clash on Sunday evening in the Premier League fixture at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Klopp\u2019s men are currently on top of the English topflight league table with 42 points from 16 games, while Mourinho\u2019s side are sixth place with 26 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n

However, after the last two encounters between Liverpool and Man United at Anfield ended in goalless draws, Mourinho received heavy criticism for his negative team setup.<\/p>\n

But Klopp has now defended his counterpart, saying that the Portuguses gaffer still remains one of the world\u2019s best managers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Jose Mourinho ever has a lack of ambition,\u201d ESPN quoted Klopp as saying at a pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just does what he thinks is right, and he\u2019s one of the most successful managers in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast season\u2019s game was not a joy for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kick-off time for the match is 5pm.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp has dismissed the idea that Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho lacks ambition ahead of both teams\u2019 clash on Sunday evening in the Premier League fixture at Anfield. Klopp\u2019s men are currently on top of the English topflight league table with 42 points from 16 games, while Mourinho\u2019s side are sixth place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54905,"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":[7644],"class_list":["post-69934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jose-mourinho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69934","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=69934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}