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Jurgen Klopp wants Liverpool to win the International Champions Cup - despite acknowledging the games do not come at the perfect time for his team.

With the Reds training hard at Stanford, there has been little time to rest and prepare for the 4.35am (UK time) kick-off against Chelsea at Pasadena's Rose Bowl.

Despite this, Klopp wants this team to give everything they have in the fixture , even if it not at the level he knows they can reach.

“Against Chelsea it will be quite tough I’m sure because maybe they have something similar - with a new manager,” he told Liverpoolfc.com.

“It’s a tournament, and if there’s something to win we want to try and win it. We have three or four games, so all good and let’s see what we can bring on the pitch.

“Pre-season is always the best opponent you can get in the wrong moment.

“If it was another moment, you could rest before, you could do something else, but we have trained a 95-minute session this morning and it was quite warm outside - but we had to do it, it was important."

Antonio Conte will take charge of his third Chelsea match with a loss and a win to his name so far but Klopp is unsure what level the opponents' pre-season preparations are at.

“Now we play Chelsea and I don’t know exactly what level they are at (and) we meet each other again in a few weeks.

“It’s not the most important game in the world, but we have to learn and use all we have in terms of knowledge, rhythm, fitness and put it in a game because if you wait for the perfect day (for a match), you’ll wait until you’re old and grey!

“It’s clear we cannot be at 100% , but I’m not interested - I want to see the 100% that is possible on this day.”