Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has questioned the development of German players, suggesting that technically skilled attackers like Mesut Ozil, Andre Schurrle and Marco Reus cannot head a football.
Klopp, whose Liverpool side head to Germany to take on Borussia Dortmund in the Europa League quarter-final, suggested that German football’s move towards technical skill has come at a price.
The former Dortmund boss singled out the trio as technical players who started as strikers but had to move further back into midfield due to an inability to head the ball and a need for more space to work with.
Speaking as part of a discussion hosted by Subway, Klopp said: “Now [in Germany], we have so many unbelievably skilled players and no one of these offensive players can make a header. It’s like we forgot it.
“Tall players, like Schurrle, Ozil, Reus, they are all like six foot, a good size, for an offensive player. They were strikers and they thought ‘ah, okay, no header’, bam, ‘I need a little bit of space’, bam, position moves back.”
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