Liverpool defeated Villarreal in the first leg of the Champions League but Jurgen Klopp insists they need to ignore the result and focus on finishing the job in Spain.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has stated that they need to ignore their first leg result against Villarreal in the Champions League.
The Reds will be in Spain for the return leg of the Champions League following their 2-0 victory at Anfield last week.
Speaking ahead of the game the German insists that they need to take their mind off the first leg result and focus on finishing the job in Spain.
“In the best possible way, you ignore the result from the first game”, Klopp told media. If that would be a cup game, only one game and it would be decided and we have to go to Villarreal, we would try to win there – and that’s what we want to try there. Knowing that they will go with all they have, it’s absolutely clear.
“We never expected it to be easy. This will not be easy. But we played a good game at home and we better play a good game there as well.”
Klopp’s Reds have won all their away game in the Champions League this season and the former Dortmund manager said they also find a way to get the job done away from their home.
“We were stable in the games but not because it was away or whatever, it’s just we found in each game a way – and we have to find in this game a way to get the result we need to go through. It was good. Atletico was outstanding, Porto, really good, Inter… the games were good but, look, we didn’t win the games somehow and sitting deep and waiting to counter-attack.
“I think we tried to play like ourselves always, and that’s what we have to try again. We will have to suffer and we will have to be ready to suffer and we will have to sit back in moments, definitely, but not as a general approach.”
