Liverpool may be renowned for attractive football, but Jürgen Klopp wants his side to become the ‘ugliest’ in Europe to play against.

With his team looking to extend their win streak to seven when they meet Southampton on Saturday, Klopp says there has been a period of reinvention with defensive solidity as obvious as attacking power. No Premier League visitor has scored at Anfield since February.

“We really want to be the ugliest team to play against. That is the plan, with good football players - which is very nice,” said Klopp.

“We want to be good at defending. The best news I have had in the last two weeks is how we have changed or reinvented again our defensive skills. We didn’t need them too much in the first few games- it was not that we didn’t have to defend but they were different games.

“Against Tottenham, against Paris, I loved how we did it. It is really difficult to do it otherwise everyone would do it. We still played football and that was a really big step in the season so far.”