<p>If Liverpool supporters aren’t going to rally behind the team in Saturday’s match against Arsenal, Jurgen Klopp said they should just give their tickets away. <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/teams/liverpool-tv-schedule/">Liverpool</a> breezed into the <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/league-cup-tv-schedule/">Carabao Cup Semi-Finals</a> on Wednesday with a 5-1 hammering of West Ham. However, the Reds boss was disappointed with the Anfield atmosphere.</p>



<p>When the Reds failed to finish in the top four last season, they quickly regained their championship hopes this year, thanks in large part to their dominant home record. The Anfield crowd’s efforts in the match against West Ham were unimpressive, however, to <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/klopp-liverpool-sacking-would-occur-if-not-for-past-success-20230403-WST-426589.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Klopp</a>.</p>



<p>He is begging the supporters to bring their A-game for this weekend’s massive match. After last weekend’s excruciating <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/premier-league-tv-schedule/">Premier League</a> tie with Manchester United, the German said the fans were uninspiring.</p>



<p>With that in mind, he has higher expectations for the next top-of-the-table match against Arsenal.</p>



<h2>Klopp slams Anfield crowd during West Ham game</h2>



<p>Dominik Szoboszlai scored a breathtaking goal to put his team up 1-0 at half-time. Still, the crowd was not reacting adequately to the performance. A portion of the Main Stand became irater due to many squandered opportunities. Klopp made gestures towards them throughout the first half.</p>



<p>&nbsp;After extending an apologetic hand, the German shook his head and went away. After scoring twice in the second half via Curtis Jones and once through Mohamed Salah, Liverpool cruised to a comfortable victory against the Hammers.</p>



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<p>During his press conference, <a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/13035454/jurgen-klopp-unhappy-with-anfield-atmosphere-during-carabao-cup-win-over-west-ham" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Klopp stated</a> his feelings about the Anfield crowd. </p>



<p>“I thought in the first half when the boys played really exceptionally, I was not overly happy with the atmosphere behind me. I asked people ‘what do you want?’ We changed a lot of things, and we dominated West Ham like crazy and missed chances.</p>



<p>“If I was in the stands I would be on my toes, 1,000 percent. I don’t know if the Man United game was that bad that we have to say sorry we didn’t smash them.</p>



<p>“If it is too much football in December, if you are not in the right shape, give your ticket to somebody else. It was just not the excitement I felt. There were so many good performances, but we were only 1-0 up.”</p>



<h2>Klopp readies for Arsenal’s trip to the Etihad</h2>



<p>On Saturday, the Premier League’s top two teams will meet in a thrilling matchup. Liverpool welcomes <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/teams/arsenal-tv-schedule/">Arsenal</a> to its stadium. Therefore, the former Borussia Dortmund manager spared no effort in his efforts to energize supporters.</p>



<p>“We need Anfield on Saturday. Arsenal didn’t play this week,” he added.</p>



<p>“They’ve prepared for this game and anyone who knows anything about them knows they will be prepared. So, we need Anfield on their toes from the first second, without me having an argument with the opposition coach.”</p>



<p>Earlier this week, in home matches against Manchester United and West Ham, the vibe was gloomy. The victory against West Ham on Wednesday followed Liverpool’s weekend 0-0 tie with Manchester United. There were just over 72 hours between games.</p>



<p>Klopp’s players may move up to first place in the league again with a victory against Arsenal.</p>



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'Give your ticket to somebody else': Klopp slams Anfield fans

After Liverpool's 5-1 Carabao Cup win against West Ham United, Jurgen Klopp criticized the crowd at Anfield.


<p>When <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/teams/liverpool-tv-schedule/">Liverpool</a> hosts <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/teams/manchester-united-tv-schedule/">Manchester United</a> next weekend, Anfield will break its <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/premier-league-tv-schedule/">Premier League</a> attendance record with the renovated Anfield Road Stand. Liverpool has <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/liverpool-fc-anfield-road-stand-man-utd-b1126227.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">spent over $100 million</a> to renovate the stands on the northeast end of the ground. In total, Liverpool is expecting 57,000 fans at Anfield when the Reds welcome the Red Devils. </p>



<p>Most of the work on the Anfield Stand came with a new upper tier that is adding 7,000 seats to the hallowed ground. To ensure the stand is ready to welcome thousands of visitors, Liverpool is hosting a test event with the LFC Foundation. Jürgen Klopp is attending a question-and-answer session at the stadium on Monday that will bring fans to the stand for the first time.</p>



<p>The game against Manchester United is Liverpool’s next home game. The Reds do have a game against Union Saint-Gilloise in the Europa League group stage. However, that game is in Belgium. Previous games at Anfield in the Premier League and Europa League pulled around 52,000 in the audience. With that number going to 57,000 on Sunday, Liverpool will break its Premier League attendance record.</p>



<h2>Liverpool to set another Anfield attendance record next month</h2>



<p>While hosting 57,000 fans against Manchester United is a massive achievement for the club, it is not the end of the line. Anfield has other seats opening in about one month that will break the all-time league attendance record at Anfield. Currently, Liverpool’s league attendance record is 58,757. That happened in a draw against Chelsea in 1949. When total refurbishment finishes, the official capacity at Anfield will be 61,000.</p>



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<p>It remains a possibility that Liverpool can break its all-time attendance record. That figure, which came in 1952 against Wolves in the FA Cup fourth round, is 61,905. Renovations to the lower part of the Anfield Road Stand end the drawn-out process to bring more people to Anfield.</p>



<h2>Ending the construction and renovation dilemmas</h2>



<p>The Manchester United game also signals the end of a lengthy process that needed delays to fix Anfield. Construction on the Anfield Road Stand started in 2021. However, the process took time as Liverpool played games while construction continued. Buckingham Group, the construction company in charge of the project, faced financial difficulties. That put <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/liverpool-set-timeline-for-anfield-road-stand-as-work-continues-20230908-WST-454791.html">more delays on the debut</a>, which the club hoped would be the beginning of the 2023/24 season. </p>



<p>“Our priority was to get fans back into the stadium as soon as possible safely,” Paul Cuttill, vice-president of Stadium Operations, said. “Billy [Hogan, the chief executive] said back in October it would likely be 2024 before we would open so to get ahead of that for the Man United game is a bit of an early Christmas present.”</p>



<p>After the long wait, Liverpool gets to bring thousands of fans to a game against one of its biggest rivals. Then, not long after, Anfield will be the location for pivotal games against Newcastle and Chelsea in January. Later games in the season at Anfield include contests against Manchester City and Tottenham. The raucous venue could provide even more problems for visiting opposition in this Premier League campaign.</p>



<p><em>PHOTOS: IMAGO</em>.</p>


Liverpool to break Anfield attendance record against Man United

When Liverpool hosts Manchester United next weekend, it will break its Premier League attendance record with the Anfield Road Stand.


<p>Liverpool is closing the new Anfield Road stand for the next three games as the club rushes to finish renovation.</p>



<p>Construction business Buckingham Group, which was in charge of the reconstruction, ran into financial trouble because of the delays. They filed a notice to appoint administrators, throwing the whole project into doubt.</p>



<p><a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/teams/liverpool-tv-schedule/">Liverpool</a> seized possession of the facility notwithstanding the Buckingham Group’s difficulties. Construction of the stand started in 2021. COVID-19 delayed initial plans and timelines.</p>



<h2>Liverpool planned to have Anfield Road ready for start of season</h2>



<p>The Reds intended on playing to a capacity crowd in their first home game of the 2023-24 <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/watch-premier-league-on-us-tv-internet/">Premier League</a>. Renovation on the stand was incomplete. Several setbacks have hampered the project.</p>



<p>Then, only last month, Liverpool found out that the business it had hired to do the job had gone into administration. The first level of the Anfield Road Stand had been built at that time. In actuality, it had the capacity to hold supporters of the opening league match.</p>



<p>However, the remainder was never completed. Inadequate capacity has cost Jurgen Klopp’s side money due to lower-than-expected attendance to kick off the season. Fans who had planned to profit from the project’s completion and the additional tickets made available due to an enhanced capacity have also been negatively impacted as the process has dragged on.</p>



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<h5>Which games will see stand closed?</h5>



<p>Everything that happened caused a complete shutdown of operations. But the club has worked rapidly to get it back up and running so that Anfield may be at full capacity again as soon as possible. Three weeks following the bankruptcy of Buckingham Group, Liverpool hired Rayner Rowen Construction and other contractors to continue the project.</p>



<p>When <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/west-ham-tv-schedule">West Ham</a>, Leicester City and Royale Union Saint-Gilloise come to town, the upper level of the new stand will close. It was the same practice for home games against Bournemouth and Aston Villa, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12492575/Liverpools-new-Anfield-Road-stand-partially-closed-THREE-games-delays-80m-stadium-renovations.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daily Mail</a> says.</p>



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Liverpool set timeline for Anfield Road stand as work continues

Liverpool have made a choice to speed up the process and get the Anfield Road stand back on track, and construction has resumed.

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<p>London (AFP) – Two public areas around the redeveloped Main Stand of Liverpool’s Anfield ground are to be known as 96 Avenue and Paisley Square, the Premier League club said Wednesday.</p>
<p>96 Avenue, a name honouring the victims who were killed in a terrace crush during the 1989 FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough ground, is a tree-lined path in front of the stand linking Walton Breck Road high street with nearby Stanley Park.</p>
<p>It is also the area where the Hillsborough memorial will be permanently located ahead of Liverpool’s delayed first home game of the season, a Premier League match against reigning champions Leicester on September 10.</p>
<p>Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said in a Liverpool statement: “We are delighted that this beautiful area in front of the Main Stand will be named in memory of the 96.</p>
<p>“We have been speaking with the club throughout the expansion project on all Hillsborough matters and I’m sure fans will enjoy walking down and visiting 96 Avenue.”</p>
<p>Paisley Square, named in memory of Liverpool’s most successful manager Bob Paisley, is located at the corner of the Kop where it meets the stand and is described as “an area where fans can gather together before the game to enjoy the Anfield atmosphere.”</p>
<p>Paisley won 20 major trophies during nine years in charge at Anfield from 1974-83, including three European Cups. He died aged 77 in 1996.</p>
<p>Robert and Graham Paisley, Bob’s sons, said in the statement: “It is truly an honour for our father to be recognised in this way and we’re grateful to the club for being involved in this incredible project.</p>
<p>“People who knew dad would know that he didn’t like any fuss or being in the limelight but having the Paisley Gates and now the Paisley Square is true testament to the success that he had as manager and ensures that his memory will live on.”</p>
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