Madrid-based reporter's question angers Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp took exception to being asked by a Madrid-based reporter whether he was worried about his players catching the coronavirus.

"Are you from Madrid? Are you concerned in your city?" he asked the reporter during a news conference ahead of his side's Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against Atletico Madrid at Anfield.

"Playing football is not special, it is just a game, we are not the society, we are part of it and we should all be worried at the same time."

Klopp added: "That's exactly the thing I don't like, you sit there and ask this, but fly from Madrid to here. They are closing schools and universities and you are obviously concerned, and that is the question. But you think now football is worth travelling for.

"It is our common problem and we cannot sort it with football. We play football, that is our part, what we have to do.

"Your job is to transport information and I hope you do it better than you ask questions. It really gets me angry when you ask me a question and suggest I have a problem that you don't have. We have all the same problem."