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Liverpool legend Aldridge: Season can be rescued against RB Leipzig

Liverpool legend John Aldridge believes they can rescue their season tonight against RB Leipzig.

Aldridge wrote for the Sunday World: "Jurgen Klopp is entering into the unknown in Tuesday night's Champions League clash with RB Leipzig - and it will be uncomfortable territory for him.

"Over the last three years, the Liverpool manager has been confident that he can rely on his players to produce a high level of performance every time he sends them into battle, but that guarantee is not there anymore.

"The last two months have been hard to explain on so many levels because I can't remember seeing a team going from where they were in December to where they are now.

"You see a decline in great teams as key players age, but to see a side that was still producing winning performances consistently just before Christmas collapse as they have done over the last dozen games has been alarming.

"This was a team that didn't look like they would lose a game again for most of last season and now they have lost five out of eight Premier League matches and has also gone out of the FA Cup in that run.

"As we saw once again in the 3-1 defeat at Leicester on Saturday, this Liverpool team are still capable of producing performances that will be good enough to beat high-quality opponents.

"Yet they now appear to have a soft centre we didn't see from them for so long, as they went on winning runs that blew their opponents away.

"These Liverpool players know what it takes to win the Champions League and even though they have taken a few counts of eight in the last few weeks, they can still pull themselves off the canvas and come out swinging.

"Liverpool still have one big chance to save their season and they have to take it against Leipzig on Tuesday evening."

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