Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said that he believes that his sides 7-0 rout of Maribor in the Europa League on Tuesday will give them a much needed confidence boost following a difficult patch of form.

Two goals each from Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah combined with efforts from Philippe Coutinho, a first for the club from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as well as a strike from Trent Alexander-Arnold saw the Reds record an easy victory.

"It will give the players a lot of confidence," said the Liverpool boss, whose side face Tottenham on Sunday, live on Sky Sports Premier League. "I was told about the record after the game and I didn't know about it.

"The wonderful history of this club can feel like a back-pack at times so it is nice to write our own good piece of the history. It will be difficult to beat that record. It is quite rare to win 7-0 but it showed we did unbelievably well.

"Maribor were quite confident before the game for different reasons. We could read the papers over here because my assistant speaks the language and he said they were positive because no English team had won in Maribor (in the Champions League).

"The boys deserved that. The only problem recently was how to explain why we didn't win. That has been the most difficult thing about our recent games."When you don't score it is a challenge to stay confident but we will try to use this result now.

"The next game is Tottenham so it's pretty likely it will not be a similar result. We have five days to recover and prepare and we are looking forward to it."