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Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp is eager to try to stop Neymar and Kylian Mbappe. The superstar duo of Paris Saint-Germain have been healed until their next decisive match in the Champions League.
The two most expensive players in the world had been worried about the game at Parc des Princes after being injured in an international match last week.
Both players have witnessed PSG's victory against Toulouse since the weekend, but their coach Thomas Tuchel said they were fit to face the English team.
"I am delighted that they are not seriously injured, it could have happened, we were still expecting them to play," Klopp told the press conference the day before the match on Tuesday. .
Neymar had prepared Mbappe for one of PSG's goals at Anfield in September, but Liverpool had won 3-2. Klopp's men have the advantage over the French capital, where they must again be ready to handle a duet with 26 goals between them this season.
"It's a lot harder to get ready for a match when my players do not know their opponents, which happens from time to time," Klopp said.
"This generation of players has watched probably 500,000 YouTube videos of Mbappe and Neymar and (Edinson) Cavani and so on.They know more about these players than me, but they can only shine when they have the ball , so that means we have to defend, close spaces. "
Liverpool and Napoli are at the top of a very tight Group C, one point ahead of PSG. That means a win for last season's finalists, combined with Napoli's victory against Belgrade's Red Star, will allow these teams to qualify, condemning PSG to a group-stage exit.
However, Liverpool's recent European record in Europe is cause for concern – they have lost their last four Champions League matches against Anfield – though they're still unbeaten in the Premier League this season.
"We brought Belgrade back into the group, so we go for everything and that's how football should be," said Klopp, who said Sadio Mane was fit to play, while Adam Lallana and Dominic Solanke were absent.
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was cheerful as he spoke to the press in Paris on Tuesday.
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PSG enjoy a record season in France, having won the 14 matches of Ligue 1, but failed to take this form in Europe.
"We have to think about how to defend, to play football ourselves.It is the most important thing." Probably, what Paris is not used to in the league because it's so dominant, "said Klopp.
Tuchel followed Klopp as a coach at Borussia Dortmund before moving to France. Despite his remarkable debut nationally, he knows the importance of progressing in the Champions League for the Qatar-owned club.
"I feel the pressure, of course, I think in every special match and that's clearly a special match," said Tuchel, tipped to engage Brazil's center-back Marquinhos in the middle of the pitch.
Tuchel also rejects fears that his team is struggling to adapt to the rise in Europe because the Ligue 1 is too easy for them.
"It can not be a problem that we win too much, that it is too easy for us.This would mean that someone else is responsible.This is not like that – we are We can not have to blame anyone if it is us tomorrow, "he insisted.
A premature exit from the competition would raise questions about the overall PSG project at a time when they are under pressure to comply with UEFA's financial fair play rules. But Tuchel wants his players to relax.
"We can not control the result, nobody can do it in football, and for that, whatever the result, the sun will shine again the next day and we will have to get up from bed and go to work, whether in a better mood or a less good mood.
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