Squad Fitness is the main focus for Klopp

Jurgen Klopp has downplayed the prospect of Liverpool breaking Man City’s all-time league record for consecutive victories.

Currently, Liverpool sit two wins shy of City’s mark of 18 that they set in 2017/8.

But the Reds have some substantial tests that they have to pass if they are to set a record of their own.

Starting against Leicester on Saturday, the Reds then play Man United at Old Trafford and Tottenham at Anfield. 

It is for that reason that the German is not thinking too far ahead.

The Echo reported Klopp as saying:

“(There are) interesting games coming up. It doesn’t sound too likely. But we will try and first and foremost Salzburg and then Leicester.
 

“Then it is the international break and hopefully everybody comes back healthy. That is most important.

“Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah will play against each other in Singapore, very interesting game obviously, it’s not qualification for anything. 

“So hopefully everyone comes back healthy and then we try to prepare for Man United.

Klopp says that records are nice to be a part of, but it is just a small piece of a much bigger picture.

“I try to understand how other people think about things but from the way I think about things I’m not interested in the number to be honest. 

“It’s just a number. So, you only can create a streak like this if you’re always in the next job. 

“The next job is Salzburg which is a different competition and then Leicester City and that will be difficult."

Having lost their opening group fixture away to Napoli the Reds need to get back on track with a win against Salzburg. Despite reaching successive finals in the competition and having made a 100% start to the Premier League campaign, Liverpool are only third favourites (behind Manchester City and Barcelona) to win what would be a seventh European Cup.

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After the outstanding success of last season, Klopp knows that Liverpool are the hunted in the mind of the opposition.

Rather than playing it down, Klopp says his team must embrace this fact.

“That’s what teams do anyway. And the next one is Salzburg and then Leicester in a very good moment, a very good team.

“There’s always a story you can create. In our case, it’s always about how many games we’ve won. 

“Even if people don’t say it they think there will be a moment when you lose a game, or whatever.

“When we play Salzburg or Leicester, people will talk about the last time we lost a competitive game at Anfield, but we don’t listen.

”We try to make the best of the situation we are in. that’s how it is. 

Klopp pointed to the fact that while the build-up to the game might be fine, you have to take into equation what the opposition brings to the contest.

"Against Sheffield United, everything was fine. 

"We tried to use the week as well as we could to do the right things in training and still you face a team that is motivated to here, or higher. You saw that.

“They really wanted to hurt us, in a football way. It was not a hard game. It was respectful. There were hard challenges but it was not a hard game."