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Wijnaldum talks about the importance of getting results in Liverpool's post-international break fixtures

Georginio Wijnaldum has outlined how important it is for Liverpool to get results when the international break ends.

The Dutch midfielder spoke about the Champions League commitments the Reds are going to have to deal with alongside cup games and Premier League duties.

Paris Saint-Germain, Napoli and Red Star Belgrade were all drawn Liverpool’s group in the European Cup - setting the Reds up for a tricky series of games before they were then drawn with Chelsea in the Carabao Cup to throw another tough fixture into the mix.

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Coupling that with the now well-documented Premier League run, which sandwiches those cup games, against Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton, Chelsea again and Manchester City then it is seen as a very important time.

“It’s going to be a really important period for us – not only because they’re big games, but also because we play a lot of games. I think in these kinds of periods you need your whole squad,” Wijnaldum to liverpoolfc.com. “I don’t know why everyone was like, ‘Oh, tough group’. I think every group is tough. We know that Paris Saint-Germain are a good team. “We played Napoli already in the pre-season and we won 5-0. But we still know they are a good team and there were situations in that game where there was stuff to deal with.”

Liverpool it seems have at least set themselves up for the challenging run of games over the next five weeks by winning four games out of four at the start of Premier League season with successive victories over West Ham United, Crystal Palace, Brighton and Hove Albion and Leicester City.