If you look at the league table, then you would say a draw would be a decent result for them on Thursday - but this Liverpool team does not think like that. The number of injury-time winners they have had in 2019 - Roberto Firmino's goal to sink Monterrey in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup was their sixth this year - will play on the opposition's minds too. To be part of the first Liverpool team to win that competition was a huge incentive for Klopp and his players, and they were absolutely desperate to do it. I wanted that achievement for myself - to be on that list of Liverpool players that had won something the club never had before. Like their song about conquering Europe goes, Liverpool are not going to stop.

Source: BBC December 22, 2019 06:45 UTC