Jurgen Klopp wants Liverpool to play ‘ugly’ against Paris Saint-Germain

Liverpool play PSG in just under two hours and Jurgen Klopp wants his players to forget about playing attractive football and focus on getting a result when it matters most.

After the highs of the emotional journey of reaching the Champions League final last season, it would be a tragedy to go from losing that final to not even qualifying for the knockout stages this time round.

A win over PSG all but secures safe passage into the Round of 16 but a defeat means that Napoli will then hold the key to Liverpool’s European fortune and Klopp wants to ensure that going into the final match of the group stage, he will be able to enjoy the football more than qualifying.

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“How do we want to play? Brave,” said the German. “Against Paris it makes sense in all different departments that we really try to enjoy the game – a very difficult game.

“In a game like this, you need to be at your best in pretty much all departments, but especially in your frustration tolerance. So you are really not annoyed by yourself or lose confidence in a situation when they pass you with the ball, with a run or whatever.

“That’s always a big challenge, but so far we always enjoyed these games, like we enjoyed against [Manchester] City and like we enjoyed the last game against PSG. It is always difficult; it is not that you play PSG, win 3-2 and you think ‘We got it, that’s how you beat them.’

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“It stays unbelievably difficult, but I think – and it’s important – that Paris know as well we are not easy to play.

“That is what I have in my mind as well. We have to be at our best, 100 per cent, and if we are then we are really not nice to play. It’s not a big joy to play against us. That’s what we have to try to be again – a really ugly-to-play football team.”

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