Gerdan Shaqiri won't play against Crvena ZUSdes

Jurgen Klopp has said that Liverpool will go to Belgrade with a 100 per cent concentration in football, after leaving Albanian attacker Gerdan Shaqiri out of the team, because his presence in Serbia could cause tensions in Serbia.

Gerdan Shaqiri caused controversy at the World Championship in Russia during the summer after celebrating with <x0-Albanian” after the winning goal in the match against Serbia, writes the British newspaper Independent.

“We're going to a fantastic city like a football team to play football”, Klopp said on the official website of the English club.

We've heard and read about things that can happen with Shaqiri's presence, we want to go to football alone and not think about other things, that's the whole”.

We don't have any political message, absolutely not. We want to be focused on football”.

“Shaqiri is not on the team, and he understands that. He is our player and we love him, and he will play for us, but not Tuesday”.

“I have heard good things about the city of Belgrade and the state of Serbia from colleagues and friends who previously visited”.