Liverpool’s Firmino improving but still in doubt for PSG clash

This, his actions made clear, is no ordinary challenge.

“I don’t think there’s any really”. Kylian Mbappe? Come on! The players we spoke to in the summer or a little earlier, they were different talks to those I had the previous year or before.

“That is a completely normal reaction because players were really going for him and he wants to protect himself and I understand that as well”. We are a challenger and we are a challenger again for pretty much everything, especially in each game.

Jurgen Klopp’s side avenged last season’s 4-1 thrashing.

His four Premier League goals this term mean the 26-year-old has now scored 17 times in 30 games across all competitions.

“If there’s a secret, let’s keep it a secret”, Klopp said.

“We can take a lot from it, a lot of confidence from that run to the final”, he said, via the Liverpool Echo.

Liverpool face PSG in the Champions League this week.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has poured cold water on the severity of Roberto Firmino’s eye injury after striker was forced off the field in win over Tottenham.

Expect to see some goals and some near winners, but this one ends as it started – even. PSG 2, Liverpool 2. There will be goals, that is nearly certain.

The two men got their coaching badges together in Cologne in 2006, but it is the differences between them that have stuck with Erich Rutemoeller, their instructor.

Saturday’s home game against Southampton would appear the easiest on paper, something even the most ardent Saints fan would have to admit, but given Stoke, West Brom and Burnley were among the seven sides to leave Anfield with a point last season, Klopp and his players will know that three points can not be taken for granted.

“You need that depth to win trophies”.

PSG will not be the only European club discussed on Wednesday, the source said, adding that theirs would be arguably the most high-profile case.

Liverpool’s form in Europe last-season was an unprecedented triumph whilst big-spenders PSG will undoubtedly be hoping their will be more to come this campaign.

The last time Thomas Tuchel went to Anfield, he was in charge of a Borussia Dortmund side who were dumped out of the Europa League after a stunning Liverpool comeback. ‘You have this outstanding individual quality on the pitch.

“There is nothing in us that thinks that’s it”.

Both Neymar and Mbappe will see themselves as heirs to the throne of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the world’s best player.

‘But my players know that. It was good (to reach the final) but we want it better for the club and the people.