Manchester United, Bayern Munich and body shock Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp can not contemplate

What week is waiting for Liverpool.

Sunday afternoon, when the dust settles at Old Trafford, the Reds could be three points from the top of the Premier League standings and have one foot in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

On the way to Jurgen Klopp are two familiar enemies – both desperate to throw a key in the works.

After four days of training away from the spotlight in the serene atmosphere of Marbella, we returned to the pressure cooker that competed for the two biggest prizes of the game.

The first place is Bayern Munich in the last 16 games of the Champions League in Anfield Tuesday night. It's a mouth-watering encounter with a team that Klopp knows all the time at Borussia Dortmund.

After doing wonders to destabilize Bayern with successive titles in the Bundesliga, they returned there long before Klopp decided that it was time to pursue a new challenge. His allegiances in Dortmund will guarantee him the warmest receptions of his compatriots.

Klopp has no chance of placing the Reds in pursuit of glory in the Premier League before the Champions League. Nobody will be rested with one eye on Old Trafford.

The boss of the Reds thinks he has a team capable of maintaining a challenge on both fronts and that the momentum generated by European progress would help rather than hinder its shape on the domestic front.

Klopp has restored Liverpool's reputation as a formidable force throughout the continent last season and will not abandon him without a fight. It is a stronger and more complete team than the one that went to Kiev last May. Madrid on June 1st is the target.

For two European heavyweights with so much history in the competition, it is crazy to think that Bayern has not played at Anfield since 1981. The atmosphere will be electric while Liverpool seek to impose his authority at the meeting.

With Virgil van Dijk banished and Dejan Lovren a major doubt, putting up a combination of center-back makeshift is far from ideal, but it's a competition that Liverpool should dominate for sure in terms of possession and territory.

Klopp will then have five days to prepare for the club's biggest national meet since the last stages of the title race in 2014.

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Manchester City playing Chelsea in the League Cup final on the same day, it's the current game for Liverpool.

Manchester United has been irrelevant for Liverpool for most of this season. The Reds have barely been able to see them in their rear-view mirror with rivals at the back sliced ​​adrift.

United was humiliated at Anfield in December when Klopp delivered the death blow to Jose Mourinho's reign.

But for the heroes of David de Gea and the flicker that the Reds endured after Alisson Becker's mistake allowed Jesse Lingard to cancel the first match of Sadio Mane, it was an absolute annihilation.

However, it's a different United. Since Ole Gunnar Solksjaer took power, they have ambaded 25 points out of a possible 27. The belief has been restored and those who bought tools have taken them back.

The European defeat against Paris Saint-Germain midweek was a reality for United, but there is no doubt that it is the toughest test that Liverpool has to face in its last 12 games to make his dream a perfect victory.

The only thing worse for United fans than seeing Manchester City's neighbors retain the Premier League title is the prospect that Jordan Henderson raises the trophy in May.

At the time Liverpool was trying to destroy United's party, roles have now been reserved. It will be hostile and you can guarantee that United will be excited.

Liverpool's recent record at Old Trafford is mediocre. The 3-0 triumph led by Brendan Rodgers in March 2014 is the only victory of the last 12 games of the Reds in all competitions. Since that win, Liverpool has drawn and lost three of their away games against United.

But again, Liverpool had never been to this kind of situation before. Their braggart was back in the impressive defeat of Bournemouth last weekend.

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United away is too far to qualify as a season definition. But the victory in their backyard would be a giant step towards the landing of the Holy Grail and some of the loot would keep the destiny of the Reds in their hands. In the same way, the defeat would be a mortal blow and would give the initiative to City.

Two titanic wrestling await you. The stakes are growing.