VIEWERS were left in stiches after Stephen Warnock claimed Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp brought ‘Gangnam Style’ football to the Premier League.
The former Liverpool left-back was left red-faced on Match of the Day 2 following the Reds’ Carabao Cup final win over rivals Chelsea.
Klopp was dancing after Liverpool’s Cup win… but it wasn’t to ‘Gangnam Style’
Klopp secured his first Carabao Cup
Fans jumped on ex-Liverpool left-back Warnock’s slip of the tongue
Klopp‘s latest trophy goes alongside the Champions League he won with Liverpool in 2019 and the league title triumph in 2020.
And Warnock claimed that Klopp brought ‘Gangnam Style’ football to England when he joined Liverpool in 2015.
He said: “When Jurgen Klopp came into the Premier League, they played Gangnam Style football, Gangnam press, it was heavy metal and everyone said ‘you won’t win the Premier League doing that’.
“He changed the style, changed the system, adapted it.”
Fans latched on to Warnock’s slip of the tongue, with one saying on Twitter: “Stephen Warnock just described Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool as playing ‘Gangnam style’ football when Klopp first came to England.
“It’s gegenpressing Stephen.”
Another said: “Didn’t realise Gangnam Style was official football terminology, Stephen Warnock.
“No wonder it wasn’t working for Bielsa. That could even work for Klopp, who prefers heavy metal football to K-Pop.”
Warnock, of course, meant to say ‘Gegenpressing’ but confused it with PSY’s 2012 hit song.
Klopp, Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick and Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel have all used the pressing style in their managerial careers.
The idea of Gegenpressing is to play with high intensity when out of possession in order to win the ball back.
Klopp has since adapted his methods though, something former Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa failed to do and he was subsequently sacked.
