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Jurgen Klopp has saluted his Liverpool players for “going beyond their limits” in order to reach another Champions League final.

The Reds boss is preparing to lead a team into European club football's showpiece event for the third time in his managerial career.

His Borussia Dortmund side were beaten by Bayern Munich in the 2013 final and then in Kiev last May the Reds suffered heartbreak at the hands of Real Madrid.

Klopp knows what it's like to fall agonisingly short in pursuit of a dream before finally achieving it and he's desperately hoping for a triumphant finale to a remarkable campaign when Liverpool face Tottenham in Madrid on June 1.

“In Germany we have a saying: ‘All the best things come in threes’,” Klopp said.

“At Mainz, I missed promotion twice and we got promoted in the third season. We hope that it will repeat itself for the Champions League. I think it’s quite cool to be honest.

“It’s a fourth European final for me (including the 2016 Europa League), that’s cool. I have had good teams and the players have gone beyond their limits in order to qualify.”

Klopp believes Liverpool have the power of Anfield to thank for their shot at securing the club's sixth European crown.

The Reds qualified from a tough group courtesy of their home wins over Paris Saint-Germain, Red Star Belgrade and Napoli.

Porto were beaten with ease in the last 16 and Barcelona were left stunned in the semi-finals by arguably the greatest night in Anfield's history.

The only European opponent to avoid defeat on Merseyside was Bayern Munich, who ground out a goalless draw. However, Liverpool then produced a display to cherish on their travels to run out 3-1 winners at the Allianz Arena in the quarter-finals.

“Throughout the years, we’ve knocked out strong sides like Borussia Dortmund thanks to Anfield,” Klopp continued.

“Last season in the Champions League we knocked out a strong Manchester City thanks to Anfield. This year we knocked out Barcelona thanks to Anfield, and of course we beat Bayern. We know that we’ve managed to achieve all that together.

“Anfield is a crucial factor for us in Europe, but the boys have done a great job, we’ve played great football.

“The away game at Bayern Munich was the best away game my team have played at the European level. It is great to see that such a development is possible and that we can become even more dominant. So far, it’s been a great campaign for us.”

Klopp knows exactly what kind of threat Tottenham pose to Liverpool's hopes of glory. The Reds won both Premier League games between the clubs this season by a 2-1 scoreline.

It's a very different scenario to coming up against Real Madrid a year ago or Sevilla in Basel in 2016.

“We know each other pretty well and that’s it,” Klopp told UEFA.com

“But nothing else apart from that. It’s a final and you have an opponent and you have to prepare for it, look at their strengths, look at their weaknesses, that’s what you have to do.

“There are no easy games. In the Champions League there are no easy games, so why should the final be easy? Certainly not. So far we’ve always used our experience in these moments, during every moment in our season.

“That’s what we have to do. We have to play the football we stand for. We have to play LFC football. That’s the plan, and then it will still be difficult, but it was difficult in all the other games as well.

“We know that already, so why should we think too much about it? If we are really at our absolute top level then we are a difficult team to play against, but we know Tottenham are as well.”

Liverpool have been on an upward curve from the moment Klopp took over in October 2015.

This will be his fourth major final with the Reds and he has masterminded three successive top-four finishes in the Premier League.

The bar was raised significantly this term with Liverpool marching on to Madrid while also maintaining a challenge for the top-flight crown with an astonishing 97-point haul. They finished just a single point behind Manchester City.

Klopp is convinced that the Reds' thrilling development will continue regardless of whether they win the Champions League.

“I think that the players knew after five days what my ideas were," Klopp added.

"It was clear that the players knew me and knew Dortmund. This is why it was clear how we wanted to play, but we didn’t want to push everything that way right from the start, we wanted to utilise the qualities of the players and give them more confidence so they would have that belief that they are the right players for Liverpool.

“But of course you need time until you can see that on the pitch. I don’t know how much time it took, but it certainly took some time. In the first year we reached the Europa League final and the League Cup final, we lost them both, but it was a very strenuous season.

“We qualified for the Champions League for the second season, in our third year we reached the final of the Champions League, and in the fourth season here we are again in the Champions League final."

Klopp believes the arrival of talent like Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker, Fabinho and Xherdan Shaqiri over the past 18 months helped take Liverpool to the next level.

“The development of the players who were there helped us a lot. Of course, the new signings helped us a lot as well," he said.

"Alisson and Virgil, for example, have had the biggest impact because they have played in almost all the games.

“But players such as Fabinho and Shaqiri are very important parts of the team, too. They are not at the top of their game, but they’ve made important steps in their development. The journey is not over, not for anyone. This is why we feel like we are only at the start, and that there is still a lot to come.”