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Jurgen Klopp has welcomed the challenge of competing for “the two toughest competitions in world football” as Liverpool prepare for their Champions League return.

The Reds are back in European action on Tuesday when they entertain Paris Saint-Germain in their Group C opener.

While the French champions were without suspended Kylian Mbappe and rested Neymar for the 4-0 romp over Saint-Etienne on Friday night, Liverpool were virtually at full strength for the hard-earned 2-1 triumph against Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley the following day.

It was the first of seven games in 23 days that will shape the coming months of the Reds' campaign, a demanding schedule that means Klopp has yet to fully formulate a plan to take on PSG.

“We take it game by game,” said the Reds boss. "We play PSG then Southampton.

“I can say right now we'll be 100% focused on Southampton next Saturday. But now we have to talk about PSG.

“I don't know what we will do yet. It's early in the season, so how are the players going to react?

“We watched PSG on Friday night but two of their main men weren't involved, but we'll analyse them. We've already started a bit. We will try to be ready, but PSG are really good.

“It's interesting. I don't see the pressure or whatever, people say we were in the final last season so now we have to win it... come on! PSG is a very interesting football project.”

Klopp added: “We play in the Champions League and the Premier League, the two toughest competitions in world football. But we want it like that.

“I am not going to stand here and say 'oh my God, we have to play all these teams'. That's how it is, that's why we are all together, to try to do our best at it.

“There's not one second that it's easy. All I can say is we will try all we can to be as good as possible.”

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Liverpool were given a scare during injury time at Wembley on Saturday, when Erik Lamela pulled a goal back for Tottenham and Sadio Mane could easily have conceded a penalty when tangling with Heung-Ming Son.

Mane and Mohamed Salah were both guilty of spurning good openings to earlier kill the game off completely with poor decision-making on the counter-attack.

Klopp, though, won't point the finger at his forwards.

“It wasn't a question of being greedy,” he said. “As a striker, I'd want them to try to score. I encourage them to do so, but there are moments when they have to pass.

“Maybe there was one situation where a pass would have been 100% better, but all the others were absolutely okay. It's normal. It was just about adapting to the situation. They're used to this situation as they are scoring goals, so why shouldn't they shoot? I'm completely fine with it.

“We're winning football games, and these boys are such a threat for each team. Each run they do gives us the space to come in between. That's how we scored the second goal. If they don't score in one game, then I have no problem with that.”