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JURGEN KLOPP has warned his team to brace themselves for a Porto onslaught.

And the Liverpool manager screened a video to highlight the Champions League challenge awaiting the Reds tonight in the Estadio Do Dragao.


Before flying to Portugal for the quarter-final, Klopp showed clips of Porto’s incredible 3-1 win over Roma.

That came in the second leg of the last-16 after the Portuguese giants had slumped to a 2-1 defeat in the away leg.

Klopp, whose team beat Porto 2-0 last week, said: “We had an analysis meeting and we were sitting there for 45 minutes talking.

“Part of it was about our first game and the other part was about the Roma second leg.

“We played Roma and they can be really uncomfortable but in the second leg against Porto, I did not see a real chance for them. Porto were in charge of that game and that was good.

“We should be prepared but we still have to play.

“The boys know I tell them the truth when I analyse things. I do not make teams bigger than they are or make them smaller than they are.”

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Andy Robertson will return from suspension at left-back while Joel Matip will play alongside Virgil van Dijk as Dejan Lovren fell ill and did not travel.

Joe Gomez should be on the bench.

As for last season’s 5-0 win at the Estadio Do Dragao in the last-16, Klopp said this means nothing.

He explained: “I did not like the last game. It was really strange.

“It was a really open game until 2-0. Even after that it was completely open. We do not remember things like this – we only look at the result.

“Porto are a really, really good football team.

“We have to play at our limit, at 100 per cent, and not try to come through. You cannot withstand this power they can create.

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“If we were 2-0 down and going into the home leg, would we think we were out? No way. That’s exactly what Porto are thinking.

“But we go there to win the game, that is the plan for us.”

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