Liverpool beat Aston Villa in the Premier League this weekend and this is a massive win before their key Champions League game against Real Madrid.
The English side go into this game with a two-goal deficit from the first leg and if they are as poor as they were last weekend, Zidane’s men are going to have a merry time at Anfield on Wednesday.
But according to Jurgen Klopp, the Liverpool players have managed to gather momentum thanks to the 2-1 win against Villa and will try and make life difficult for Real Madrid.
He told the press after the Aston Villa win: “Whatever we can do, we will take. That’s clear. We need a perfect performance on Wednesday if we want to have a chance only – just for a chance.
“I really think the way we played and the way Real Madrid played there, it doesn’t look very promising but the good thing is we can play better. That would change the game already, but we have to.
“We don’t have to make it now too big already… Real Madrid doesn’t come here and think they are already through and these kind of things. It will be a tough one, but we will give it a try I can promise – and that’s the only thing we can say.
“This today helps, of course. When you are in a moment, when you win every game and stuff like this, you don’t feel the intensity, you feel nothing – you want to play the next game. You could play the next game the next day. Obviously, for us in the moment it is not that easy and we have to work really hard, we need to have five chances to score a goal or 10 to score a goal and these kind of things.
“You have to go through that, you cannot change that just because you want to – if you want it to be different, you have to work for it and we did that today against a strong opponent. A very important three points and whatever it will give us for Wednesday, we will use.”
Real Madrid go into the second leg as the favourites but Klopp will be hoping the Villa win will be enough to a confidence booster for his players to rattle Zidane’s cages.
Liverpool have looked questionable both in defence as well as in attack over the past few months and for them to enter the next round of the Champions League, at least one, if not both departments will have to come good in midweek.
