Jurgen Klopp has advised Darwin Nunez to not dwell on the frustration of his house debut purple card towards Crystal Palace.
The Liverpool striker was despatched off simply earlier than the hour mark of their 1-1 draw with Palace on Monday after reacting to a shove from Joachim Andersen by pushing his head into the Dane’s face and can be suspended for the Reds’ journey to Manchester United on Monday.
Nunez posted an apology on Twitter on Tuesday, and Klopp – who confirmed Roberto Firmino is again in coaching – insists the Uruguayan ought to transfer on shortly.
“In fact we spoke to Darwin, and his response was just like the response is in these conditions,” Klopp advised reporters on Friday. “He was very disillusioned with himself clearly that it occurred, we spoke to him, the issues the centre half did [he] is not going to be the one participant on this planet who’s doing these sorts of issues.
“It’s like that, if any person makes such a mistake and also you inform them ‘you shouldn’t do it’ then [the response is] ‘yeah, I do know’. It’s about feelings, it’s about these sorts of issues.
“He apologised, which is completely tremendous, however we advised him it’s not essential to be strolling by way of the constructing head down, depressing stuff like this. We’re human beings, we make errors and you need to stick with it, it’s all tremendous. It occurred as soon as and it’s okay.”
1 – Darwin Núñez is the second Liverpool participant to be despatched off on his first Premier League look at Anfield after Joe Cole vs Arsenal in 2010, additionally on August fifteenth. Mist. #LIVCRY pic.twitter.com/pDF2Ahvks7
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Klopp additionally addressed rumours from Germany that midfielder Naby Keita is sad with a scarcity of taking part in time and will probably go away the membership, with the Reds boss dismissing them out of hand.
“It’s actually humorous when I’ve to reply on ‘information’, as a result of what you’d study on my aspect of the desk is how typically 0.0 is behind information,” he mentioned.
“No, nothing [in the stories], completely nothing. Naby was ailing for every week, final recreation on the bench, is full in coaching, appears actually good, all tremendous. However not a participant who’s overly glad when he’s not taking part in, however it’s utterly tremendous. No one got here to me and requested me about that.”
The German coach mentioned after the draw towards Palace he felt “like a witch was within the constructing” after a number of gamers had been compelled to overlook the sport with harm points, together with Joe Gomez, who was solely match sufficient to come back off the bench, with Nat Phillips taking his place within the beginning line-up within the absence of injured duo Ibrahima Konate and Joel Matip.
Klopp did although verify that Gomez is ready to begin at Previous Trafford on Monday, saying: “He was actually unfortunate [before the Palace game]. He had slightly factor, however I needed to decide, he solely got here again to group coaching on Sunday.
“So yeah, massive alternative [for Gomez], he appears nice in coaching. So he’s again, he was within the squad final week, however now he’s again in regular coaching and hopefully it stays like this and yeah, he’ll begin.”
The previous Borussia Dortmund head coach additionally warned towards dealing with a wounded animal as he prepares his group to face a United aspect backside of the Premier League desk after beginning the season with two defeats, together with final weekend’s 4-0 thrashing at Brentford.
“I would favor to play them after they received 5-0, positively,” he mentioned. “We drew two video games so is it higher to play us, or worse? I don’t know, it’s simply the scenario.
“I believe the entire world will watch it, it’s Monday night time, and we are going to see how these two heavyweights cope with the scenario. I’d watch it. I’ll watch it, by the way in which!”
