Jurgen Klopp Expresses Annoyance Over Lack of Liverpool Signings

In his immediate post-match reaction after the first leg, Karius highlighted the impact Anfield could have in helping Liverpool overturn the deficit against their fellow Premier League side.

Klopp has encouraged home fans to propel their team to victory at Anfield and has urged the Kop to create a special atmosphere to intimidate the visiting side.

“They’ll fancy their chances quite strongly, and rightly so, they’re a very good football team with home advantage so they’ll be very confident of that”. There’s not enough goals in this Hull side and they’ll need a tremendous amount of luck.

More shoddy defending handed the relegation battlers a third goal at a moment in the game when it felt as if Liverpool were ready to go on and win after coming back from 2-0 down. Everybody’s responsible for everything. So this season we have put ourselves in a stronger position to try and win a trophy, but the league form is not quite as good.

Centre-back Joel Matip is set for his first start since December 11 and will bring a more commanding presence and greater organisation to the defence, which looked shaky in conceding three times against Swansea.

Cameroon said he had refused a call-up, and Federation Internationale de Football Association rules state a player may be blocked from featuring for his club if he refuses to play for his country.

Liverpool reached two finals last season without winning either, losing to Manchester City in the League Cup, and Sevilla in the Europa League.

Southampton head to Anfield with renewed confidence, having ended a run of four straight league defeats with a 3-0 win over champions Leicester City last weekend.

The report says Sakho has received two offers from Southampton and Russian side Spartak Moscow which he is now weighing up.

Southampton could be without key defender Virgil van Dijk (ankle).

I think, on the final whistle, the score will be Liverpool 2-0 Southampton, 2-1 on aggregate.

The Southampton boss told his pre-match press conference earlier this week: “If he [Stephens] has to play this game I think he will play with a good spirit and calm and he’s a good player, an global under-21 and now important games and he has quality”.

However, with the Premier League nearly out of reach as Chelsea sit 10 points clear, there will be even more of a light shone on this match.