Jurgen Klopp warns Liverpool not to write-off Inter Milan in Champions League second leg

Manager Jurgen Klopp has warned Liverpool that their Champions league last-16 tie against Inter Milan is far from over, despite his team holding a 2-0 advantage going into Tuesday's second leg at Anfield.

Goals from Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah at the San Siro last month mean the Premier League club are in a great place to qualify for the quarter-finals of a competition they last won in 2019.

But they take on a team against a team sitting second in Serie A and who thrashed bottom club Salernitana 5-0 last Friday leaving Klopp to insist it would be foolish to think the job is done.

“The danger everybody knows about – it's 2-0,” Klopp said on Monday. “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.

“It's a really good, really experienced team and they don't come here as tourists. 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.”

The German also gave an update on the injured trio of Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip and Robert Firmino, who all missed the 1-0 Premier League win over West Ham United on Saturday.

INTER RATINGS: Samir Handanovic - 5. The Slovenian might have anticipated Firmino’s header and seemed rooted to the spot. He had no chance for the second goal. Reuters

“All of them trained fully yesterday,” Klopp said. “We