Liverpool will attempt to finish what they started in the lucrative Champions League group stage this week as they take a 2-1 lead into their play-off second leg against Hoffenheim.
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s sublime free-kick and a second-half own goal handed the Reds a slim advantage in Germany, but Mark Uth’s late strike provided Hoffenheim with a bit of hope ahead of the return at Anfield.
“The performance and the result were not perfect, far from it. We still have much to do in this tie,” Klopp said in Liverpool’s matchday programme at the weekend.
Hoffenheim began the new Bundesliga campaign with a 1-0 victory at home to Werder Bremen, and Germany midfielder Kerem Demirbay still harbours hope of stunning Liverpool in the second leg.
“We could achieve something extraordinary there. We could turn it around. We will give everything to do that,” said Demirbay, who was part of Germany’s Confederations Cup-winning side in Russia.
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