Jurgen Klopp is of the opinion that striker Daniel Sturridge needs to forget any concerns he may have about his place in the side for the good of the club’s season.
“I can imagine a player with his quality is not happy that he is not starting all the time, but that’s all,” said Klopp.
“The situation with the player is completely okay. At this moment we are in November and need all our players — even if he feels a little different.
“There is around one-and-a-half months before the window opens and I don’t think about things like this. There are so many games before then and I need all of them [his players].”
Klopp has visited the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan twice before with Mainz and Borussia Dortmund and left with two draws (0-0 and 2-2), but would dearly love to silence the vociferous home crowd.
But he knows he will need a “mature” performance from his side.
“Without that you have no chance,” he said. “They [Sevilla] have all the things you need, experienced strikers, quick strikers, ready for channelled balls, midfielders [Steven] N’Zonzi, [Ever] Banega, [Jesus] Navas quick in behind. Different things they have.
“When you prepare for a game like this you think, ‘Oh my god, they are really good.’ It is more interesting to face them.
“This is a tough place to come. What we did in the last month result-wise has given us confidence coming here, but that does not mean we win it.
“Our new maturity we will have to show it 100 percent in this atmosphere. We do not need to run in only one direction and win in the first second.
“We have to show how the last games were against a quality opponent.”
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