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Liverpool spent a full training session this week working only on set-pieces as they look to hold firm against the Premier League kings from dead ball situations.

Tony Pulis's West Brom side have scored 19 set-piece goals while Liverpool have conceded from 11 such situations this year.

Liverpool have conceded from six corners alone, the worst record of any top team.

Klopp is well aware of what awaits his team at the Hawthorns although he feels their set-piece defending has improved and they haven't had a great deal of luck in some situatiosn where they have conceded recently.

Speaking about how to deal with the WBA threat, Klopp joked: "No player under 6ft 3in on the pitch in a Liverpool shirt at the weekend. We’re still looking for a few!

"Yeah, we know about the challenge. Avoid set-pieces, defend them really well. We had this issue not that much in the last few games.

"It’s not easy to create chances against us, obviously, for all teams, because if you look at the stats and all that stuff, the chances against us, really rare.

"If they (opposing teams) had created more chances but we had defended set-pieces better, then we would still have a big number of goals conceded, but maybe we wouldn’t talk about this today.

"So we are in it. We have improved a lot but still if they want to beat us, it was in the last three games not unlikely that it could happen after a second ball after a set-piece because the first ball is being defended a bit better. Much better, actually."

Klopp doesn't believe those recent goals conceded - a corner against Everton, a long throw-in and second ball against Bournemouth - have been caused by any formation problems.

Good work by the opponents, a deflection here, a bounce there he feels have all contributed.

Nevertheless time has been put in on the Melwood training pitches this week.

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Klopp said: "We know about their quality around set-pieces. We know about it. But it’s something to defend, and that’s what we try to do. There was one full session when the weather was not too good, and it was very windy.

"That was the main thing we did: Defending set-pieces. It was coincidence with the wind and everybody had to react all the time, so I thought it made sense to use these circumstances for doing this. It worked well. It was not perfect because that was not possible. But it worked really well.

"We have to be spot on in these situations, but in football you should do that many things right that nobody thinks after the game about the few things you did wrong. That’s what we try to do."

While they have not always seen eye to eye during games, Klopp respects the job his opposite number Tony Pulis has done.

"It’s a players’ game. We all know we cannot perform wonders. The better the players we have, the better we look in public. But as a manager, you always respect the things like Tony Pulis is doing at West Brom a lot. Don’t think he has a bad football team, huh? It is not like this. They are really good."

In terms of a manger of the year, Klopp believes Antonio Conte is "the obvious choice", but thinks Mauricio Pochettino is a contender too.

"Mr Pochettino is not far behind him, because it is the second year in a row that he has such a young team playing wonderful football in difficult situations. Maybe apart from the Champions League, everything else went well. They’re in the FA Cup semi-final, so that’s another choice. There are a few of them you could think about."

Other names Klopp mentioned were Marco Silva at Hull, his close friend David Wagner at Huddersfield and Chris Hughton at Brighton.

"All of them have difficult situations and obviously they deal really well with it, so I’m happy I don’t have to make the choice."