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Liverpool boss Klopp: Brighton not best in the world, but...

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says they go to Falmer stadium today full of respect for Brighton.

Klopp insists they won't be taking the Seagulls lightly.

He said, "Brighton are not the best in the world but they are incredibly good. We are not the best in the world, obviously, but it is nice words. Graham knows exactly what he really thinks, he knows that it is football and there is a big chance you can give other teams a struggle.

"That's what we try to do constantly and that's what they will try, definitely, even when the results in the last few weeks were not brilliant for Brighton, but the performance level is really, really good. I think they are fourth-highest [in the] possession stats in the league, which is not easy to have. So, you need to do a lot of good stuff to keep the ball that long in a football game and in the end, it's for us always a challenge to face them.

"We realised it in the home game: when you are not compact against Brighton then they play in and around you, that's how it is, that's how they set up. So we have to make sure that we find a proper defending attitude and from there we go.

"We don't go there to show who is the better side or who is world-class or stuff like this, not at all. We are humble enough to go there and really work incredibly hard and put in a proper shift. That's what I expect – not a fancy football game, I expect us as a real hard-working unit."

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