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Richard Garnett

UNBELIEVABLE: Why jurgen klopp isn t on the touchline for liverpool vs southampton | History Defined

Jurgen Klopp will be forced to watch his Liverpool side play Southampton from the stands on Saturday afternoon.

The Reds are looking for a second consecutive Premier League victory after picking up a first away win of the season at Tottenham Hotspur last weekend, before the domestic campaign is temporarily brought to a halt for the winter World Cup.

But they will have to do it without their chief commander after Klopp was retrospectively slapped with a one-match touchline ban. The punishment relates to an incident during Liverpool's 1-0 victory against Manchester City at Anfield last month, when Klopp was shown a red card for getting in the face of the referee's assistant and berating him for failing to award a clear foul on Mohamed Salah.

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