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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp keen to change European perception of Club World Cup

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Jurgen Klopp was criticised for taking his first-team squad to Qatar and leaving a youth team to get beaten by Aston Villa in the Carabao Cup.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits winning the Club World Cup will do little to change the attitude towards it back home – but for him and the players it is currently the most important competition.

Klopp was criticised for taking his full first-team squad out to Qatar and leaving behind a hugely-inexperienced youth team to get beaten 5-0 by Aston Villa in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.

However, victory for Saturday’s opponents Flamengo in the final will be greeted as the greatest day in the club’s history, having already won the Copa Libertadores, Brazilian championship and state championship.

Liverpool scored an added-time winner to book their place in the final, yet another in a season of late interventions which have seen Klopp’s side establish a 10-point lead at the top of the Premier League after 16 wins and one draw.

But when it was suggested to the Reds boss that meant they went into the game with an edge over their opponents, he said: “We have a psychological advantage? I don’t know.

“We try to prepare solutions for the problems we have: sometimes we know about them and sometimes we face problems all of a sudden and we have to find solutions.

“We don’t see us as a team who cannot lose a game, we see ourselves as a team who has to work their socks off to have a chance to win the game and that is what we try all the time.

“Everything we do, everything the boys eat, the numbers of hours they sleep, the recovery, the training we offer them, giving them time off for their mind to think about something completely different – we do these things only to create the best possible basis to win the next game.

“While we are doing that we try to have a good time together otherwise it would be a bit boring.”

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