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Thu 15 April 2021 | 10:36

We want the Champions League next year, so we keep fighting – Klopp

Liverpool boss urges the players to fight for a Premier League top-four finish, after crashing out of the Champions League.

Liverpool

faced

Real Madrid

last night in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final. Despite having many opportunities, Klopp’s men could not use their chances to score and left the pitch with a 0-0 draw, and given their 3-1 defeat to Los Blancos in the first leg, the Reds got knocked out of the competition.

Liverpool are not experiencing their best run in the Premier League either and are currently standing sixth in the table. The Reds boss,

Jurgen Klopp

has now urged the players to move on and focus all the attention on a top-four finish.

Asked about Liverpool’s chances for next year’s Champions League qualification, the German replied:

“We are not silly. We want what we earn. If we don’t earn it 100% then we respect the situation.

“We concentrate on what we do and what we have to. It is tough, we are still not in hot seat and we play at Leeds United on Monday. That is a tough one, they are the most physical team in the Premier League pretty much so you better run a lot yourself.

He was also asked if he is confident about securing a top-four finish.

“It has nothing to do confidence. I am naturally confident but that doesn’t mean we will end up there. We know the points we have, we know the table, we know the situation. We don’t have to talk too much about it,”

he added.

“If we want Champions League then we should play really good football which we did tonight but if we want to go through we should finish the situations off on top of it.

“We are not in a bad moment. We played really well and got a late winner against Aston Villa, we played really good against Arsenal and not good against Real Madrid in first leg, but we were not bad tonight.

"We really have to keep going and keep fighting, we want the Champions League next year, but we have to pick up more points than a lot of other teams.”

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