Liverpool can't sustain focusing only on hotshot Haaland: Klopp

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Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool, admits that he cannot afford to place too much emphasis on in-form striker Erling Haaland in Sunday's match against Manchester City because the champions have too many threats elsewhere.

The Norwegian international has 20 goals this season, including 15 in the Premier League, and will be a major threat at Anfield.

City and Liverpool have been the dominant forces in the English Premier League in recent seasons, but Klopp's side has started slowly this season, winning only two of their first eight league games.

The Reds are in 10th place in the table, 13 points behind second-placed City, who have scored 33 goals in just nine Premier League games.

Liverpool kept Haaland quiet in the FA Community Shield opener, but the 22-year-old has since scored in every game for City in all competitions with the exception of one.

Liverpool faced Haaland twice in the Champions League in 2019 when he was a raw 19-year-old playing for Red Bull Salzburg, and he scored once.

Klopp described his potential at that young age as "insane".