Liverpool boss Klopp positive on Sadio Mane’s return vs. AS Roma

Liverpool’s priority is now this season’s Champions League and protecting a 5-2 lead over Roma heading into the semifinal second leg on Wednesday. The second will be played in Rome next week. “We go there and try again”, said the German coach.

“In the end, and it’s not that I want them to go down or whatever, but if they want to stay up it needs to happen without the points of Liverpool”.

A repeat scoreline, another “rimonta”, and Roma would be through to a first European Cup final since 1984.

“It’s just a couple of f****** morons that take the rest of us down”. “Here we started well but then we really suffered against their pace”.

Having elected to play a high line against the Reds, Roma were torn apart due to impressive Liverpool offence and poor Roma defence. “Let’s not forget the story of how we got here”. “That gives some meaning to the second leg”, Di Francesco said afterwards.

Sporadic trouble broke out in the city centre before the game, and as more than 50,000 fans descended on Anfield, including around 5,000 fans from Italy.

“We want the world to know that Sean is the most unbelievable and wonderful husband, dad, friend, son, uncle, and brother and he has brought us all nothing but joy”.

However, he added: “At the Olimpico, every minute is long”.

“We believe the victim was in Liverpool with his brother for the Liverpool v Roma semi-final and was assaulted during an altercation between Roma and Liverpool fans near to the Albert pub at about 7:35 pm”, detective inspector Paul Speight said.

“I think those two goals have given them much more encouragement because in their last result against Barcelona was 4-1 and they scored three goals at home, so that will give them confidence”.

If Salah leads Egypt out of Group A and steers them towards the quarter-finals, he will be able to make an even stronger case to prise the highly coveted individual award from the two greats of the game.

Since signing from Roma last season, the 25-year-old has already equalled the Premier League record for goals in a 38-game season with 31.

Indeed Liverpool are the only unbeaten side in the competition this season and I expect them to travel to Kiev with that unbeaten record still intact.