Jurgen Klopp enlisted the help of ping pong star Liu Haoyu to take on Roberto Firmino and Roberto Firmino recently.
The Liverpool manager took time out from preparing his team for some big games to give Chinese ping pong legend Deng Yaping a call.
He had a big ping pong game planned against two of his star players and needed a quality partner.
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But Yaping - an 18x world champion and 4x Olympic champion - wasn't available as she's in Beijing and unable to get a Visa in time.
Instead, she called in the help of Haoyu, who is one of her scholars and the reigning UK university champion.
Firmino and Coutinho actually put up a pretty good fight, with Klopp showing his rustiness from not playing for the last 30 years.
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But it wasn't enough to beat their manager, with Klopp and Haoyu emerging victorious winning 2-1 on sets.
You can watch the full game here:
Credit: Liverpool FC
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It was a little bit unfair on Firmino and Coutinho that Klopp was allowed to draft in a star player as a partner, but they were next going to let him win so it's just as well he did.
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