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Liverpool boss Klopp: I will select a team to beat Toulouse

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says they're taking Europa League opponents Toulouse seriously.

Klopp insists there won't be many changes for the game.

Toulouse deserves all our respect," said Klopp at his pre-match press conference on Wednesday afternoon. “It's a really interesting story, winning the French cup last year and coming 13th in the league – it's a massive, massive thing obviously.

“This year a really young team, a really talented team, a football team. When you see them playing it's really nice, they have a clear idea. But we have to see how they exactly show up here, we don't know.

“Against Paris [Saint-Germain] or Lens they play slightly different; in all other games you could see that they really want to go for it. Got a point against PSG, which is obviously a massive one.

“So, we have to make sure that we are really ready. And then it's about us, that's very important, that we really create an atmosphere through the way we play. If we do that then as much as I'm pretty sure they are looking forward to playing at Anfield – the players of Toulouse, coaches, stuff like this – we have to make sure they cannot enjoy it, because that's the plan.

“It's a competition and we are not here for friendly games or whatever, we are really here to win football games and that's what I hope we can show."

A third win would see Liverpool just about through to the next phase and Klopp said: “True. It's now not that I think we play Toulouse at home so we have to win and that we can lose at Toulouse, or whatever.

“We want to win football games and that's the next opportunity we have. It would bring us to nine points and keep Toulouse on four points, that's all clear. But knowing that changed nothing. We have to play to our best.

“We will make a few changes, not too many maybe, we will see. But we have to make sure that we are really ready for the competition and the boys showed so far that we are ready for the competition. That's what I want to see.

“Obviously we hope it will go long, long, long in this competition and for that we have to make all the decisive steps and tomorrow night is a very big one."

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