The UEFA Europa League is the only silverware missing from Klopp's Liverpool repertoire. The German tutor has already bagged the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup, Super Cup, and Club World Cup as a Liverpool manager. The Reds lost the 2016 Europa League final to Sevilla, a team that has come to be recognized owing to their specialty in the tournament. Jurgen Klopp now insists that Liverpool are in the competition to win it and are at Linz to compete and not to give away opportunities. The Reds take on Lask Linz tonight as they compete in a competition where they last featured in 2016 during Klopp's first season in charge of Liverpool. Since then, Liverpool have gone on to win the UEFA Champions League and featured in two of its other finals.

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As things stand right now, the Europa League remains to be the only trophy to evade Jurgen Klopp in his eight-year tenure at the helm of Liverpool and he will be giving his all in this tournament to set his hands on the silverware. Klopp in a prematch interview said: "We are here to compete, not to give opportunities. My first year I thought the Europa League was a bit too much for us until we got to the final. We had to fly to Russia and play on a frozen pitch in Sion. That was a different squad. We were not ready and we came through somehow. I don't think we were exceptional until the quarter-final and semi-final. It is a different time, a different team. We are better prepared. We enjoy it more to be here because we had no clue at that time what to expect. We have to be motivated and we are excited to play in the Europa League. I didn't watch the Champions League (this week), I didn't miss the anthem." 

Only Joe Gomez remains of the Liverpool squad that featured in the 2016 final as he was 18 at the time but tonight he will be out with an injury he picked up last week. Klopp's side are currently the favorite to win this season's Europa League trophy followed by last season's runners-up AS Roma. Klopp has a squad packed with stars in the likes of Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah who have all it takes to go all the way to lift the Europa League trophy this season. Liverpool definitely does not often play in the Europa League these days and they can make the most out of the experience as they take motivation from the fact that Jurgen Klopp needs to add the European second tire league trophy to his cabinet.

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