Klopp says no room for complacency against Benfica despite Liverpool's healthy advantage

Complacency is a rare visitor to Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, but there is always a challenge in keeping focus on the present while eyes are on all the prizes. Liverpool’s assignment on Wednesday - a home, second leg in a Champions League quarter-final where they hold a 3-1 lead - could very easily look like the most straightforward match of the 13, across three competitions, that they hope they still have ahead of them this season.

Benfica’s visit to Anfield is sandwiched between the draw at Manchester City that maintained the tantalising poise of the Premier League title race and the same clubs’ FA Cup semi-final, on Saturday.

Wednesday should usher Klopp’s team to the third European Cup semi-final of his era in charge, and, if City are successful in Madrid, towards a possible further summit meeting with City in the Champions League final.

Talk of a quadruple - Liverpool have already won the League Cup - is a distraction quickly dismissed by the Liverpool manager, and Klopp’s immediate task of keeping his players alert to Benfica’s threat is well served by drawing attention to another treble - the three goals scored by Darwin Nunez on Saturday in the Lisbon derby against Belenenses.

Nunez, or just ‘Darwin’ to his growing number of fans, has been the breakthrough talent of this season’s Champions League. He is younger, at 22, than 27-year-old Sebastien Haller who set records for potency in front of goal for Ajax, and the figurehead for Benfica’s progress to the last eight of the competition for the first time in six seasons.

He has scored twice against Barcelona. He netted at Bayern Munich. He headed in the against-the-run-of-play goal that eliminated Ajax in the last-16 round, and he gave Benfica their slender lifeline