Liverpool's Naby Keita attempts 'double crossbar' in training fun before Real Madrid clash

Liverpool are preparing to try and win their seventh Champions League title.

The Reds are looking to consolidate their status as England’s most decorated club on the continent as they lock horns with the owners of Europe’s biggest trophy cabinet of all: Real Madrid.

Liverpool came up short against the very same opponents back in 2018 when Mohamed Salah’s shoulder injury and Loris Karius’ disastrous errors defined an evening to forget in Kiev.

However, Jurgen Klopp’s men have come so far in the last four years that you could forgive them for feeling very confident about their chances against Real regardless of what happened in 2018.

We are, after all, talking about an era-defining team that has already amassed 92 Premier League points and winners’ medals in the Carabao Cup and FA Cup over the course of this season alone.

So, while Klopp will no doubt be acutely aware of Real’s extraordinary escapology skills against Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City, it’s hard to believe that they’ll be fearful of suffering the same fate.

No, it’s far easier to picture the Reds sticking to their guns and not second-guessing themselves by taking to the Parisian pitch safe in the knowledge that they’re the favourites to go all the way.

And you certainly couldn’t detect any fear in the Liverpool squad as they took to the newly-laid Stade de France pitch for an opening training session on Friday.

In fact, such was the joviality and laughter amongst the Reds side in clips that emerged from the session that you’d have no idea that they were bearing down on one of the biggest games of their lives.

Take, for example, Liverpool channelling their inner YouTubers by participating in the famously serious, formal, earnest and sincere