Jurgen Klopp is just like Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, says Adam Lallana

Similarities: Both Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino promote a pressing style
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Tom Dutton2 December 2015

Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana believes Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino hare the same football philosophy.

Lallana played under Pochettino for 16 months at Southampton before moving to Anfield for £25 million in July last year, just a month after his then manager left the club to take charge of Tottenham.

The 27-year-old England international will tonight return to St Mary’s for a Capital One quarter-final tie.

Lallana told The Daily Telegraph: “He [Klopp] is getting out of me what Mauricio asked of me at Southampton.

“The manager sets his team out the way Pochettino does — that is where I can see a similarity. He said to me in our first conversation how he’d seen me play at Southampton.

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“Now the role I’m playing now is more like it was there. I don’t want to compare managers too much because it’s not fair but the pressing style is similar to what I was used to.”

Southampton will be without Jose Fonte, who has a knee injury, while Philippe Coutinho could return to the Liverpool squad following his recovery from a hamstring problem and Lucas Leiva is available after serving a suspension.

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