Ahead of a crucial Champions League week for his side, Jurgen Klopp has one hope before facing RB Leipzig at Anfield next Wednesday.
Even though Liverpool is not going through their best moment in the Premier League, we can’t discard them for the Champions League. Often times we’ve seen football clubs have a dismal league season and win the continental tournament. It’s a very different setting and mentality you need to play both competitions. Klopp’s hope is that the players can get a little time to rest from all the calamities on the domestic front.
They are coming from a negative dynamic but they have a good chance to qualify to the quarterfinals if they win against RB Leipzig. Getting a positive result against Julian Nagelsmann’s squad won’t be easy but Klopp is confident the players can get that win. Motivation to get as far as they can in a different competition is the only thing they have left for a troubled campaign on all fronts. The Reds do have the quality to overcome this situation by getting far in a different competition.
Klopp thinks his players can do it.
“The next game is in a different competition where we didn’t do too bad so far, but it will be a tough one, obviously, so we have to make sure we are ready for that,” said Klopp via The Liverpool Echo. “If we can go through, which is not guaranteed, then that could give confidence. Then we have Wolves, which is a tough one and then we have a couple of weeks off because of the international break and all these kind of things. We have to use that time, we have to hope all the boys who go to their national teams come back healthy, like always.
“Then I think there are another nine or 10 games to go, sounds like 27 or 30 points, so a lot to go for and we will try. For winning one football game, no,” added Klopp when asked how important it was to get injured players back. “For being the successful team again, for being the team we can be in the best possible way, of course we have to be complete. More complete than we are in the moment, that’s all clear, but that’s not what we are thinking about in the moment. We really think from game to game. When you are winning then people think ‘Why do you say that all the time?’ but that’s the only way. You have to think and to concentrate and focus on the next game and to go again.”
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