Jürgen Klopp expects an exciting Champions League clash between two sides boasting 'experience, youth, skills and threat' at Anfield tonight.

Liverpool host AS Roma in the first leg of their semi-final encounter – with a place in May’s showpiece in Kiev on offer over the next eight days.

Klopp has made five changes to his starting XI, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dejan Lovren and Andy Robertson returning to the defence, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Roberto Firmino brought back in further forward.

“We cannot get a result without a good game,” said the manager.

“It’s a strong [Roma] side. They are playing the same system they played against Barcelona – so [that’s a] big honour!

“It will be exciting. It’s a really open game with two strong sides. Go through their line-up and it’s a mixture of experience, youth, skills, threat and everything. Go through our line-up and it’s pretty much the same. That’s how a semi-final should be.”