Leicester Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp must treat Carabao Cup with more respect - Sherwood

TIM SHERWOOD thinks sides like Liverpool need to treat the Carabao Cup with more respect.

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Jurgen Klopp during his side's Carabao Cup defeat to Liverpool

Liverpool slipped to a surprise 2-0 defeat away to Leicester tonight in the third round of the competition.

Strikes from Islam Slimani and Shinji Okazaki put the Reds to the sword and added to the pressure Jurgen Klopp has come under recently.

Liverpool fielded a weakened side, with Klopp choosing a much younger line-up from the one that started the 1-1 draw at home to Burnley last Saturday.

And Sherwood believes the Carabao Cup shouldn’t be diminished by managers, because it represents the best chance for some sides to win the competition.

“Clubs like Liverpool should treat it with more respect,” Sherwood told Sky Sports’ The Debate.

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Tim Sherwood thinks clubs like Liverpool should treat the competition with more respect

The kid Woodburn will play more for Wales than he will for Liverpool

Tim Sherwood

“There’s not that many trophies out there to go for.

“Winning the Premier League is very hard and to win the Champions League is even harder.

“So you’re left with the FA Cup and League Cup and the longer you’re in it, teams will field stronger sides.

“So why not be in it? These teams have big squads.

“The kid Woodburn will play more for Wales than he will for Liverpool. He’ll have no football unless he plays in the Premier League and I can’t see much action for him once the pressure comes on.”

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Jurgen Klopp meanwhile, has admitted he’s a bit ’sick’ of the goals Liverpool are conceding.

“That we conceded like this, that makes me really, really sick. That’s hard,” Klopp said.

“Then the reaction, you saw a young team, we played one-twos on the left wing at 2-0 and then [Leicester] made a counter-attack. 

“These are mistakes I can live with because the two boys [Woodburn and Solanke] together are about 34 [in combined age], so that can happen. 

“But defending set pieces, it wasn’t the first ball [for the first goal] – we had problems with this and now we had it with the second or third even and then the throw in.”

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