Spiky Jurgen Klopp defends Liverpool's FORTY false positive Covid tests

Jurgen Klopp has defended Liverpool against question over their 40 false positive Covid-19 tests last week that saw their Carabao Cup match against Arsenal postponed.

Klopp himself tested positive for the virus at the start of the year but last week, a Covid outbreak saw the training ground shut amid an influx of positive tests.

There were reports the EFL were going to investigate the circumstances around the postponement after Klopp revealed on Sunday, after Liverpool beat Shrewsbury 4-1 in the FA Cup, that the vast number were false positives.

Speaking at his Wednesday press conference ahead of Thursday's tie with Arsenal, Klopp said: 'What would you think I mean when I talk about false positives?

'A false positive is when you get a positive test back. When you are able to do a re-test, you get a result which makes it look like a false positive because this test was negative.

'It doesn't change anything for your quarantine but you need to know, you have to do a third test. In between, you cannot use the players - that's how the rules are for all of us. If the third test negative as well then that is it. But that is four days later, we couldn’t have done anything different.

'In the first moment we got the positives tests, we had to consider it was the right result. PCR tests, by the way.'