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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger plays 'long balls'

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has questioned the football played by Arsene Wenger's Arsenal ahead of their Premier League meeting on Sunday.

Arsenal have long been regarded to play some of the most attractive football in the league, but Klopp believes Wenger resorted to "long balls" in the sides' 3-3 draw at Anfield in January.

"I think everyone who saw the game saw the difference between this game and all the other Arsenal games," Klopp told his prematch news conference.

"But in the last few years Arsenal had a more direct style. They have only good football players but at the end they don't use all of them in each build up or each offensive movement -- it is a myth. It is definitely a plan and they want to win games.

"Arsenal is usually a football playing team but last time against us there was a lot of long balls and always to Olivier Giroud.

"The second ball was to [Mesut] Ozil, they caused us a lot of problems in this game. That was a big threat on that day.

"We knew about it because a lot of teams chose this way against us so it we could have defended on this day better.

"It was not about what they did, it was about how they did it because it was highest quality with how Giroud and Mesut Ozil, especially, on this day performed."