Days before a showdown between the Premier League's two most-recent champions, Liverpool and Manchester City, the mind games are in full swing. Following Jurgen Klopp's comments about Man City supposedly benefitting from a two-week break enforced by COVID-19 issues, ESPN FC's Steve Nicol, Stewart Robson and Craig Burley try to make sense of the Liverpool boss' recent run of puzzling comments. Does he really believe what he's saying, that everyone has it out for his team this season? Plus, the guys discuss whether it is too soon for Klopp to deploy one of his new center backs — Ben Davies or Ozan Kabak — on the back line against Pep Guardiola's surging City side.
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By ESPN FC
February 5, 2021