Andrew Robertson says Liverpool are the team Europe most wants to avoid as Jurgen Klopp’s side set their sights on the club’s seventh Champions League triumph.

The impressive nature of the victory in Salzburg on Tuesday underlined the appetite for more success in the knockout stages, where Klopp is defending an extraordinary record of reaching a final every time he leads Liverpool in Europe.

Such is the level of respect for Klopp’s side, Robertson is sure rivals will be hoping to avoid an Anfield trip.

“That is the atmosphere we have created in the last two years, a team which has been to the final twice and has obviously lost one and won one and we are respected in this tournament,” said Robertson.

“Maybe the first season when we went to the final, I don’t think we were really respected until maybe after the last 16 when we went to Porto and washed them away. We did not get the respect we deserved. Now, we know we are respected in Europe. No-one will want us but everyone who gets into the last 16 will fancy themselves. It is the toughest tournament.