While they are contending for the league title, Klopp underscored Liverpool's desire to win the Europa League as well.
Ahead of a second leg against Sparta Prague, which they lead 5-1 on aggregate, Klopp said about fixture congestion: Yeah, you can see that like that in the end but it was anyway tough, super-tough because we have game after game.
I think Arsenal played last night the last game until after the international break, right? That's a big break. Everton didn't play this week at all if I'm right. That's not good as well, I don't think they like it, that they think three weeks in the middle of the season is fantastic.
But we have our challenge. The challenge we have now: we play tomorrow and then on Sunday, and then the players obviously play two games for their countries, pretty much 85 per cent of the players do that, which is a tough one as well.
We just don't think about it. We just play the games. Momentum is always maybe in the moment we have it, I don't actually know if we still have it. We had it at the weekend a little bit, but do we have it still? I don't know, we have to see that tomorrow night.
But if we don't have it, we have to get it as quick as possible and keep it and keep it through the game, and then we will see how we deal with that and how the results will be.
But good results always help, good performances always help. But even that is a challenge to bring that again on the pitch because if you play bad, the next game you have to play better. If you play good, you want to play as good at least or better. That's actually the idea and not that you have consistency.
The boys were quite consistent, I have to say now, in recent weeks. But it's a long, long run-in in all competitions a long run-in and we are not even close to the finishing line, it doesn't feel like that, I can't see the finishing line.
I just see Sparta Prague wants to put things right and we have to play a really good football game because it's our home game, it's our stadium, it's our competition.
We wanted to make it our competition from the first day of the competition, so we want to go as far as possible and it would be cool if we could say that after the game as well, that we still have the momentum. But in the moment I don't know."