Liverpool will chase down the only major piece of silverware missing from their trophy cabinet when they tackle Flamengo in the Club World Cup final on Saturday night (8.30pm).
The Reds needed a stoppage-time Roberto Firmino winner on Wednesday night to edge past Mexico’s Monterrey and the reach the Doha showdown.
And coach Jurgen Klopp is expecting another tough test for his team against the Brazilian Copa Libertadores champions Flamengo.
DOUBT: Virgil van Dijk. Picture: Jason Cairnduff/Reuters.
With fitness concerns over ill Virgil van Dijk and a squad stretched by a busy December schedule, the German says: “It will be more difficult for sure, just because it’s the next game and we have now to collect our bones.
“I don’t know who exactly will be ready for the next game, so we will see.
“Probably Flamengo’s season is over, they are here with the full squad pretty much as well. We have just to recover as quick as possible and to make ourselves ready. But we saw Flamengo, of course, in the other semi and it was an open game.”
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