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Jurgen Klopp has vowed that Liverpool's approach won't change as they edge closer to Premier League title glory as he insisted: “My players are used to massive pressure.”

The Reds will return to action after an 11-day break when they face Leicester City at Anfield on Wednesday night.

The stakes just keep getting higher as the leaders chase the club's first top-flight crown since 1990. But Klopp revealed he has steered clear of making any speeches designed to reinforce to the players what they could achieve between now and May.

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“Everyone knows, it's an obvious thing and we don't have to talk too much about it,” Klopp said.

“The games are all big coming up. They were big, they are big and we don't have to make them bigger than they are because in the end it is still a football game and you cannot do more than give everything. That is what the boys have done so far and I imagine they will do it again.

“You cannot have 60 points and win all the games 5-0. You have to be there for the tight games, the very exciting ones, exciting last five or 10 minutes – nobody wants that actually but you have to be ready for it.

“All we have to do is be brilliantly prepared, use the right things to analyse, not make the opponent too big but show the respect and show their strengths.

“It didn’t change a lot. It stays so important. It’s always like this in this part of the season. From this point last season, it felt like we couldn’t lose a single Premier League game because Chelsea came from behind like crazy and won game after game.

“We had massive pressure last year and this year it is no different. We are used to the situation that actually we have to win all the football games. It makes life not very comfortable but it’s a normal situation.”

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Klopp is hoping to see the benefits of last week's training camp in Dubai when the Reds face Leicester.

The gap due to Liverpool's early exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Wolves gave some players some much needed recovery time after a gruelling run and allowed those on the comeback trail to make progress.

“We had so many different individual situations,” Klopp said.

“One person needed more (training) and another needed less. It was clear a big group of players who had played the last four or five games would have two days rest. That's what we used it for in a different surrounding and better weather.

“There you can be outside more so it was good for the body and good for the soul.

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“We had a big group who trained four times with individual training with the fitness department.

“If I trained normally with a small group, bigger group or all players together it means they all do the same and the intensity is the same.

“That's how a season usually is – you are at a similar level and pick them from a similar level and do the same things with them in training. That was not the case any more so we tried to bring them all to the same level over the four days.”

During Liverpool's break, title rivals Man City booked their place in the EFL Cup final and advanced to the last 16 of the FA Cup.

Klopp insists if he had the luxury of a full squad he would prefer to be in Pep Guardiola's position of still competing on four fronts.

“Having a proper week for football training is really what a manager wants to have,” Klopp said.

“We don't have that often enough in modern football, that's the truth. We have pre-season and then three or four weeks over the year when you have a full week to train and not only to recover and prepare for the next opponent.

“That is what you want but, if you have enough players available, then you want the Man City situation of being in all cups and having Burton as an opponent.

“Even when they played the first game with their 'A' team if you want, it was not a proper.... we trained harder. That's how it is because it was not that intense winning 9-0. They did brilliant, 100%.

“Doing it with a full squad is the perfect situation, then it is absolutely fine, but we didn't have the full squad in that moment and it would have been really tough if we'd had the same schedule.

“We still have to see who is fully fit for Leicester and with Milly (James Milner) suspended on top we can't say that is the best moment of the year for the squad, but it's nothing to moan about.”

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Virgil van Dijk is expected to recover from illness, Gini Wijnaldum is fit to return and Fabinho is also back in full training.

With Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez still out and Milner banned, either Fabinho or Rafa Camacho is set to be required at right-back.

Brazil international Fabinho has really showcased his versatility with big performances for the Reds of late both at centre-back and in midfield.

"It is always how a squad should be," Klopp added.

"You don't have that many specialists any more, maybe the goalkeeper, centre-halves and the left-back, but pretty much all the others can play in different positions. That's good. Otherwise you need three players in each position to make a squad really big."

After a slow start following his summer move from Monaco, Fabinho now truly feels like he belongs at Anfield.

"That's been the case for a while," Klopp said.

"With our Brazilian boys, Alberto (Moreno) and Rafa Camacho, having the same language helped.

"Fabinho's English is really good but it is nice to have these small talk moments with the guys you already know from the national set up.

"I think his settling in needed five hours or so but football wise it took him a bit longer. That's normal and no problem."