Inter Milan not coming to Liverpool as tourists: Klop

Jurgen Klopp said Inter Milan were not coming to Liverpool as tourists this week even though they are trailing 2-0 after the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.
Liverpool are well-placed to qualify for the quarter-finals ahead of today’s second leg at Anfield after Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah scored in Italy last month.
But Klopp is taking nothing for granted as his side seek to stay on track for an unprecedented quadruple of trophies after beating Chelsea on penalties to win the League Cup last week.
“The danger everybody knows about – it’s 2-0,” Klopp said in his pre-match press conference yesterday. “I think it’s the lead which got turned over most often in the history of football.
“If you get to half-time 2-0 up and you have a team who thinks we are halfway through then you are already on the wrong path.
“It’s a much better result than I would have expected before we played there. The game didn’t look like we would win it 2-0 for most of the time. It was a really tough tie and a really difficult game to play.”
Klopp said Inter, second in Serie A, had real quality, shown in their 5-0 victory over bottom side Salernitana last week.
“It’s a really good, really experienced team and they don’t come here as tourists,” said the German. “I know that they want to chase the game and that’s what we want to do because we are not a team who defends results or tries to get through somehow. We want to attack the game again.”
Klopp said Firmino, Thiago Alcantara and Joel Matip had returned to full training after injury and illness issues.
The trio will be assessed ahead of the Inter match but Klopp said because Firmino had been out for longer – he has not played since the Inter game - he might not be risked.

Inzaghi not giving up on Champions League quarters despite huge task at Anfield
Simone Inzaghi says his Inter Milan team are going to Anfield aiming to reach the Champions League quarter-finals despite the odds being firmly against them against red-hot Liverpool.
Inter fell 2-0 to the Reds at the San Siro in the last month after matching Jurgen Klopp’s side for three quarters of the match but failing to get past a superb backline marshalled by Virgil van Dijk.
The defeat leaves Inzaghi with the unenviable task of trying to become just the second ever team to overturn a two-goal home leg deficit in a knockout tie, against a Liverpool team which has won its last 12 matches and not lost at home in a year.
“We were punished too harshly in the first match... now we have a game against one of the best teams in Europe but we’re going there in good spirits, motivated and with the aim of making it a contest,” Inzaghi told reporters.
“Finding a goal in the first half is essential really. It’s going to be a difficult match but we’ve had three days to prepare and the boys are focussed... We know what we’re about to face, together with Bayern Munich and Manchester City they are in my view the best team in Europe.”
Inter’s loss to Liverpool was their first knockout match in the competition in a decade and Inzaghi says the three-time European champions need to reacquaint themselves with the highest levels of continental football. They are engaged in a three-way Serie A title race and will be boosted both by Friday’s 5-0 thumping of Salernitana, which ended a four-match run of matches without scoring, and the presence of a strong squad missing only the suspended Nicolo Barella.
The inability of Serie A’s highest scoring team to pierce Liverpool’s defence stood out as an example of the gap between Italy’s best and the European elite.
“It’s been a long time that we were in the last 16. We were good in the group and we deserved to go through,” added Inzaghi.
“The draw didn’t go our way but regardless we knew before that we were going to face a really good team. Growth is a gradual process, we faced the first leg in the best way possible and we’ll do the same tomorrow.”