Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has confirmed his team is fully focused on their UEFA Europa League season as they kickoff their campaign against Austrian outfit, LASK.
The Reds missed out on the Champions League for the first time in six years. And they are set to take the Europe’s secondary competition by storm according to Klopp.
“First and foremost, I think we all have to make sure that we all respect the competition in the right manner. That we respect the opponents in the right manner,” Klopp told TNT Sports.
“Wherever we go it will be a massive game for the teams. Everybody who comes to Anfield will be a massive game.
“In the [UEFA] Champions League [it was] the same but it will be here as well, and we have to be 100 per cent ready for that.
“We want to go as far as somehow possible. I would love to go to the final, obviously. But I have no clue if we can reach that. Because there will be a lot of fantastic football teams in between us and that target. So we have to make sure we perform.”
Only a couple of months after Klopp succeeded Brendan Rodgers as manager, Liverpool last competed in the Europa League. Reaching the 2016 final before falling to Sevilla.
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However, stretching back to the UEFA Cup era, they are one of the most prosperous clubs in the competition’s history. The trophy was won by the Merseyside giants three times: in 1973, 1976, and 2001.
Only Sevilla have won more UEL titles than Liverpool. The Spanish outfit are champions of the competition on seven different occasions. While Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Inter Milan are tied with Liverpool on three titles.
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