Jurgen Klopp has been to a Champions League final in his managerial career but right now he's just got to concentrate on getting out of the Group Stages. He'll have to start that with one of his players likely missing.
In the 2012/13 Champions League Jurgen Klopp twice managed to mastermind his team past Real Madrid, first topping their group and then beating them in the semi-final. That second triumph saw them play at Wembley against Bayern Munich.
Klopp comforts his players after they lost an agonising final against countrymen and rivals Bayern. Image: PA
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After two seasons out of the competition, and their last two forays in the Champions League ending in the Group Stages, Liverpool fans will have hopes slightly less than reaching the final next May.
On Wednesday night they start their campaign in Group E against Sevilla, a team they are all too familiar with, before facing Spartak Moscow and NK Maribor in the next couple of months.
However it looks like they will start against the Spanish side without one of their high profile signings of the summer after Mohamed Salah was sent home from training with illness.
Reports suggest that it was only a precaution to send the Egyptian winger home however the fact he didn't train does suggest he may not play.
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It will be Sadio Mane's last game before his three match domestic football ban kicks in after his red card against Manchester City that caused so much controversy.
Salah celebrates scoring against Arsenal. The former Roma man has had a decent start to life back in England. Image: PA
Salah's illness, and Mane's suspension from the weekend, could be good news for Philippe Coutinho as he looks for a way back into the team following his injury and transfer request.
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If not Coutinho it could be Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who makes his first start for the Reds, the Englishman's last two domestic games have been an aggregate 9-0 loss!
Will Liverpool beat Sevilla?
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