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Jurgen Klopp keen for Liverpool to keep pressure on top-four rivals, Dean Smith sure Leicester can survive

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Jurgen Klopp vowed Liverpool will maintain the pressure in the race for the Champions League after a routine 3-0 win at Leicester.Curtis Jones' quickfire double and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s fabulous goal kept their push for the top four alive while plunging the Foxes closer to the drop.Second-bottom Leicester are two points from Premier League safety with two games left and go to Newcastle next Monday.Victory means Liverpool have booked European football next season and they sit fifth, a point behind Newcastle and Manchester United, who have both played a game less.Klopp said: "Our job is to keep the pressure (on Newcastle and Manchester United), but if not this is already better than we could have expected six or seven weeks ago."I have no clue what it means to us.

Four or five years ago we had Chelsea on our neck and they were winning all the time. I think it was the year we finished fourth and had to go in the qualification."We had to win the last game and until the last we had to win, win, win, because behind us they were always winning."We made it anyway and that’s what I expect them to do as well, if I am honest."But it keeps you on your toes and that’s our job – we have to keep them on their toes and then we will see what happens."Six or seven weeks ago I didn’t believe it could happen.

What we lacked at the time was consistency."The game never became the game it could have been, a real fight, challenges everywhere, because we controlled it in a really convincing way."Alisson Becker snuffed out an early chance for Jamie Vardy and Liverpool swiftly took control, with Jones’ double ending the game as a contest before the break.The midfielder opened the scoring after 33 minutes when he arrived unmarked at the far

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