Jurgen Klopp dismisses suggestion Liverpool can't cope with one tactic

Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool must be ready to capitalise should Atalanta struggle to manage the expectation of their strong Europa League position.

The Serie A side are overwhelming favourites to progress from the quarter-finals after they earned an historic 3-0 win during the first leg at Anfield last Thursday.

Liverpool have never before progressed in Europe having lost a first leg at home, the most recent example of which came last season when they followed a 5-2 loss to Real Madrid in the Champions League round of 16 with a 1-0 defeat in Spain.

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Klopp, though, believes the Reds' previous encounters with Atalanta - when they followed a 5-0 away group stage win in the Champions League in 2020/21 with a 2-0 defeat at home - underlines the potential issues in managing such a big lead from the initial match.

And the Liverpool boss has dismissed claims his team struggle to cope with man-marking. "We played four years ago against Atalanta and they played like this and the result was completely different," he said. "Man-marking was not the problem last week. They did it well but we didn’t play well. That is it. We have to do better. We played into their hands.

"With specific runs we would have caused them more problems but tomorrow is more difficult because they don’t have to score at all.

"But it’s not easy to approach a game when you are 3-0 up. We had it last time against Atalanta and lost 2-0 at home. We didn’t know what to do with the first result and we didn’t fight for everything as usual. We will see who deals better with the situation. If Atalanta go