Manager Jurgen Klopp upbeat on team beating Atletico Madrid and retaining the title
Mohamed Salah of Liverpool during the Premier League match between Norwich City and Liverpool FC at Carrow Road in Norwich, the UK, February 15 2020. Picture: MARC ATKINS/GETTY IMAGES
Liverpool remain on course for a potential five-trophy haul this season. They have already lifted the Uefa Super Cup and Club World Cup and are used to reaching European finals under Klopp. On current form Atletico are little match for the holders. For the first time in more than eight years in charge, the future of Diego Simeone has been questioned with Los Rojiblancos languishing well off the pace in La Liga and battling just to qualify for next season’s Champions League.
Simeone’s Atletico sides that came so close to winning the competition in losing two finals to rivals Real in 2014 and 2016 were built on the most miserly defence. But even the Argentine would be impressed by Liverpool’s run of winning their past 11 league games by the combined score of 24-1. However, City are running into a rejuvenated Real Madrid in the last 16, who have shot to the top of La Liga on a 14-game unbeaten run.
Dortmund have the firepower to cause their former coach Thomas Tuchel more Champions League pain in free-scoring new signing Erling Braut Haaland, who already has eight goals in the competition this season as a Red Bull Salzburg player.
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