Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is confident Mohamed Salah can handle facing former club Roma in their Champions League semifinal.

Klopp admits the winger's chance to play against Roma will make Liverpool's semi-final clash against the Italian side all the more special for the Egyptian.

"For sure it will be interesting for Mo, but that shows all the quality of Roma," Klopp told Liverpool's official website.

"Everybody knows how big Mo's impact on our season has been – and they've played a season without him. Where would they be if Mo was still there?

"It makes it a really interesting thing and for him, it will be 100 per cent special. He is already of interest wherever we go, but it might go crazy when we go to Rome! He can deal with that, I am sure."

Klopp is remaining wary about the threat of Roma after watching the Serie A side score three goals at home to eliminate Barcelona on away goals.

He added: "Because I knew I'd have to say something after it, I tried to think about what I feel, but it was not that I thought 'Thank God not Bayern, thank God not Real Madrid, yippee Roma' or the other way around.

“"It is just the draw and I know it is very exciting, but it is good because the most important news is we are still in the competition. Whichever opponent we would have got, I would have said there is a chance because it is football – so there is a chance against Roma.

"But if anybody think this is the easiest draw then I cannot help this person; they obviously didn't see both games against Barcelona. In the first result, the 4-1, it was not like the game was – it was Messi genius against a good side of Roma."