Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists Thursday's clash with Manchester City will be 'intense', despite the title race being over.

City's loss to Chelsea last week meant Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions with seven games in hand.

When quizzed about what he thinks Thursday's encounter will be like, Klopp replied: "Intense.

"I saw City play now already three times. I think they have played more often but I saw them playing three times and that looked like how City looks – massively dominant, making the pitch big, using direction, preparing direction, mix up of long balls to prepare the smaller space and the other way around.

"It's football and that's what we want to see from ourselves as well.

"You cannot defend City if you don't play an intense game. I think it's difficult to defend us if you don't play an intense game. So that already makes clear how this game will be.

"I can't see a game where two teams are not active and two teams are waiting for the final whistle. This will be a proper football game, 100 per cent.

"It will always be a proper football game for whatever reason. There's no need for [it] being a final or something else.

"We had one 0-0 [with them] and that would be a really unlikely result, to be honest. We had one but they had to miss a penalty."