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Klopp confident Liverpool can handle last day pressure

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is confident his players will hold their nerve today against Middlesbrough.

The Reds need a result to be sure of Champions League qualification.

“Have a look at my career, my seasons were always on the last match," he says. “I would like to change it but obviously it was a part of my life.

“I am completely used to working until the last minute, being concentrated until the last minute. Most decisions are made in the last moment.

“The more you try, the bigger your desire is, the more likely you will have these kind of finals. For me, it is kind of a normal situation.

“I know how people feel when they go to the stadium, they're like (gasps and bites his fist) 'Oh my God, please' but we have to be smart as well as emotional.

“We have to be well organised but fluid also. That's what you have to be in all games.

“Only if you let it be more difficult, it is more difficult. It's all about us and this team showed me so often that they are really ready for situations like this.

“We have to show it again, it will be fine."

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