Liverpool coach, Juergen Klopp, has made it clear that he does not expect his team to win the UEFA Champions League this season and maintain the title he crowned last season, noting that it is difficult to expect the most prominent candidate to crown the Champions League in the presence of this huge number of strong teams in The round of 16 that will start next Tuesday.
The defending champion Liverpool will play a difficult match against Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the 16th round of the European Champions League next Tuesday.
The German coach said in an interview with the newspaper, "The Guardian": "I have no idea whether we are going to get far in this year's championship, but there is no reason to think about this now because all we have to do is focus on Atletico Tuesday."
He added: "What we showed last season in the Champions League is that we are able to defeat the best in Europe, this does not mean that we will do it again, but it means that we are able to."
He added: “Juventus was my favorite candidate before the start of the season, but it is clear that I do not watch Italian football enough because I cannot understand why they did not advance ten points to the top of the Italian Serie A, and the Bayern Munich squad is also enormous, and Paris Saint Germain Amazing when all the players are physically ready, you can never exclude Barcelona, and let's not forget Manchester City, because the Champions League will be one of their great goals. "