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Liverpool boss Klopp admits kids likely to face Southampton in FA Cup

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits he may play his kids tonight in their FA Cup Fifth Round tie with Southampton.

The Reds go into the clash on the back of winning the Carabao Cup.

Klopp said: "It's just you want to take the positive feeling. You want to take the vibe and all of that. No, that's not a problem. The problem is the lack of recovery time. That's a problem. Besides that there are no problems. The boys love playing football, obviously, we all could see the love. The boys love digging incredibly deep to grind a result out somehow. "Everybody saw that as well and so [it's] a strange one. We all know how the world is.

"Everybody says it's Liverpool against Southampton. Liverpool is a massive favourite and whatever people say anyway [that's] not too important. But that's not the case. We need to find a team who is competitive and then we will fight for it. Obviously we all got a really good taste of how Wembley feels on a day like this. We had all different experiences there. We lost there, we won there so it's a nice stadium anyway, but when you win it's a completely different place.

"It's not that we don't want to go there again. It's not about us. If we can decide it, we go. But for that we have to win tomorrow and a lot of other games. Now for tomorrow we just have to find out who we can line up and then we go. I said before and that's really the truth [that] as long as we have 11 players, we will have 11, we will go for it. [If] everybody wants to follow or push us in that direction then that's absolutely welcome."

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