Jurgen Klopp has said that Liverpool are better than before without Coutinho!

“Yes we miss Coutinho, a lot, because he is a world-class player and I loved working with him,” said Klopp. “But we had to deal without him and we really did well.”

“When I first heard he wanted to go to Barcelona, I didn’t imagine we could be that good [without him]. But we did, it was all good for both sides.”

“It’s brilliant,” said the German. “The only thing that would be better is if someone told us we were already champions. In other years it could have been like this.”

“But it’s not a problem. We’re completely fine. We like the situation – the boys created that.

“It’s a wonderful situation, flying here to Barcelona. Two years ago it was a big thing for the club to qualify for the Champions League. Now we’ve reached the semi-finals for the second year in a row.”

“It’s only positive and everybody sees it like that. We don’t need a guarantee. You can’t come here and think, ‘it’s only Barcelona, we’ll play the game and then go home and concentrate on Newcastle’. That would be nice but it’s not possible. The competition is too big.”

“It would be a massive mistake to play against Barcelona with 15 or 20 per cent Newcastle on your mind. It doesn’t work. You’d get a proper knock and we want to avoid that.”

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