Klopp is expecting City to come charging out of the blocks tonight

Jürgen Klopp listed all the things that had changed — his team, Pep Guardiola’s team, the competition and even the weather — before predicting one similarity remained from his previous visit to the Etihad.

Should Liverpool depart tonight with their ambitions enhanced, then they will first have to survive another thunderstorm from Manchester City.

The colourful description was used by Klopp before the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final last April when anticipating the sort of onslaught their rivals would launch in seeking to wipe out a 3-0 deficit.

Liverpool’s advantage at the top of the Premier League over third-placed City stands at seven points and Guardiola’s desperation to eat into that means that Klopp has told his side to expect another siege.

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