Jurgen Klopp, coach of the Liverpool, He acknowledged this Thursday, after meeting his rivals in the Champions League, that they face a “difficult” group in which they will compete with a “historic” such as Milan, a Port with whom they have faced numerous times in recent times and an Atlético de Madrid with whom he said he had “a pending account”.
“We already played, I don't know how many times, against Porto, so they will wait for us. Obviously, we have a somewhat open account with Atlético, and AC Milan, is a historical, obviously, “he explained in a statement provided by his club.
The German coach confessed that when he found out the composition of the group he laughed quite hard “because obviously it is a tough group.”
“It's the Champions League, that's the way it is, and you have to play against the best teams in Europe, and obviously some of them are in our group!”added Klopp, for whom the fans will be eager for the competition to begin as well as the coaching staff and the players.
He recalled that they are still “quite ambitious” and explained that he would like to show that the hard work they did last year to qualify “has been worth it”, convinced that they have “a good team, whoever plays.”