• Dortmund coach prefers playing Liverpool away from Signal Iduna Park • ‘We have to score and we are ready to take risks to score’

Thomas Tuchel has claimed Borussia Dortmund will find it easier to play at Anfield than hosting Jürgen Klopp’s return to Signal Iduna Park as he pledged to take risks and attack in the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final.

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The Dortmund coach exuded confidence on the eve of the match on Merseyside, insisting he loved the pressure of needing to score against Liverpool following last Thursday’s 1-1 draw in Germany. “We don’t want to score one, but two, maybe more,” said Tuchel, who rested eight players in Sunday’s derby against Schalke, a 2-2 draw that damaged Dortmund’s outside hopes of taking the Bundesliga title from Bayern Munich.

Tuchel believes the emotion of Klopp’s “homecoming” inhibited his players in the first leg and that, with the reunion over, Dortmund can show their true potential at Anfield.

“We put ourselves under pressure but a good kind of pressure. I can feel it now,” said Klopp’s successor. “This is different to previous rounds and even the first leg. That was a special situation with Jürgen coming back to the club where he had such a successful time, you cannot deny that energy, but this is easier for us in terms of being at Anfield, an away game and we know what we have to achieve.

“We have to score and we are ready to take risks to score. We don’t want to feel boundaries but see our potential and what is possible for us. I am proud to be coach in this situation. If this is pressure, I love it.”

He added: “There was an undeniable energy to the first leg with the backstory of Jürgen being back at Dortmund, where so many of the players were with him. You cannot deny the emotion that built up but the second leg is different to the first. We will be uninhibited. There is a different approach to this game and the focus is completely on playing football. The players have a chance to immerse themselves in the experience of playing Liverpool at Anfield. We are in a much more positive frame of mind.”

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Dortmund have the midfielder Ilkay Gündogan available after injury and such is Tuchel’s belief in his players that he predicted the first leg result would prove almost irrelevant.

“I don’t care so much about the result in the first match because I don’t think it will have that much of a decisive influence,” Tuchel claimed. “We are here to play our best and to enjoy the situation. We know how difficult the game can be tomorrow and that it can be a milestone for us when we look back on this season, if we step up into the next round, and see whether we can handle this challenge.

“I don’t think the first leg result is important because we are here to bring out a new potential in the team, to see how far we are and to score at Anfield. We don’t want to score one, but two, maybe more. We want to attack and to take risks. We like to play and it’s very clear we will have to be at our best but we are ready for it.”