Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists being in a title race is not the prime motivating factor which drives him and his players through each day.

Defeat to Brighton in midweek left Liverpool seven points behind leaders Manchester City, Sunday's visitors to Anfield, and led to the Reds boss and defender Andy Robertson accepting the champions were not currently in the running for top spot.

However, Klopp insists there is time for that situation to change but he will not start thinking about it for a couple of months at least.

"With all the stuff we do I think it would have been absolutely reasonable to make an exception, but I don't know exactly who decided it in the German government but they said 'so far not possible'," said the manager.

"But maybe it is good to see for German people who are not in the subject, we are not infected. We have the same problems like you have.

"We know there is another strain but we are really in a bubble and we could play at Leipzig without spreading the virus. Let's just say that once.

"But it is like it always was, the rules are rules and we will accept them so I don't know where we will play."