Liverpool have an additional opponent to fret about heading into their crunch Champions League conflict with Benfica tonight.
It has been claimed Premier League rivals Wolves have been sharing notes with the Portuguese aspect earlier than the sport.
Portuguese publication A Bola have reported that Benfica have made use of their connections with Wolves supervisor Bruno Lage - who used to handle Benfica - to plunder all of their knowledge and notes from their sport towards the Reds this season to assist them put together for tonight's Lisbon conflict.
Again in December, Wolves got here inside 30 seconds of changing into the primary workforce to cease Liverpool scoring this season till Divock Origi scored a 94th minute winner from a Mo Salah help in a 1-0 win.
Till then, Wolves had shut Liverpool out, one thing Benfica will look to repeat, with Liverpool creating few clear probabilities aside from a nasty Diogo Jota miss.
It is claimed in Portuguese press that Wolves have given Benfica key knowledge on offensive and defensive actions, with specific emphasis on the attacking forays made by full-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson, as effectively the sorts of incisive runs that forwards Mo Salah and Sadio Mane make.
It additionally included particulars of how supervisor Jurgen Klopp modified Liverpool’s system mid-game, together with shifting round midfielder Thiago Alcantara into totally different zones on the pitch.
Jurgen Klopp was happy together with his sides’ techniques and efficiency on the night time.
He stated: “I favored the sport we performed as a result of we performed between traces. It was actually good aside from the ending. We missed plenty of probabilities and we needed to defend the counter-attack of Wolves with Traore. That was the problem immediately.”