Klopp insists Reds will go 'all in' for cup semi-final against City

Liverpool will go "all in" and treat their trip to Wembley to face Manchester City like a final because manager Jurgen Klopp believes that is what they have been doing with all their games since the turn of the year.

The Reds have lost just once since late December – to Inter Milan in a Champions League second leg from which they still progressed on aggregate – and have built momentum ahead of the final part of the season.

In January they were 14 points behind Premier League leaders City and that is when the 'final' mentality kicked in as they knew they could not realistically afford to lose again.

That gap is now down to one and, after the pair played out an enthralling 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium last weekend, they go head-to-head in the FA Cup semi-final on Saturday with Liverpool’s continued bid for an unlikely quadruple at stake.

"It has to be treated like a final, we have to," said Klopp. "In an ideal world we have 12 games, that means the 10 around we treat like finals.

"That’s how it is pretty much and that’s how we approached it already since January since we started this little mission. You have to go all-in.

"Imagine now if we would play against City and would think, ‘Yeah, maybe we can (do) a little bit less there, there a little bit less’. No.

"Any way, against City you always have to see it as a final but now it is the semi-final, it means it’s the only way to get to the final and we actually want to go there."

This is the furthest Klopp has gone in the FA Cup since his arrival in 2015 and, after Carabao Cup success in February, remains the only trophy he has yet to win with the club, whose last of their seven successes in the competition came in 2006.

"Massive competition, massive competition," added Klopp.

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