Jürgen Klopp insists Liverpool are fully prepared for FC Porto and their supporters giving everything to try and turn around the Champions League quarter-final tie when the teams meet at the Estadio do Dragao on Wednesday night.
The Reds hold a two-goal lead from last week’s first-leg encounter at Anfield, when strikes from Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino sealed victory.
However, speaking at his pre-match press conference on Tuesday evening, Klopp explained why no-one within the Reds camp is underestimating the threat The Dragons will pose, particularly with a lively home crowd pushing them on.
On Porto boss Sergio Conceicao saying ‘sometimes, Liverpool are the best team in the world’…
When was that? What did he say, exactly? We are the best team in the world sometimes? Sometimes we are really good, that’s true, and hopefully we can show it again.
Maybe I can understand a little bit why he says that because there are moments after we win the ball, or moments before we win the ball, or moments when the boys do some things, then it looks really, really good, that’s the truth, but that’s pretty much all. This is a compliment, but we still know we have a really tough job to do tomorrow – and probably he said that as well, that he still believes in their chances. Did he say that? Yes, OK, then it’s all good.
