Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp laughed at Carlo Ancelotti's team selection ahead of Saturday's Merseyside derby at Anfield. Everton boss Ancelotti declared on Friday that Allan and Dominic Calvert-Lewin would be fit to play. However, the duo were only named on the substitutes bench by the Italian.
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"I think it will be a game with lots of intensity and we want to be ready for these kinds of situations."
Klopp named an unchanged line up from the 2-0 Champions League win over RB Leipzig in midweek.
And he was delighted to bring some continuity in his selection..
Klopp added: "We couldn't do that too often this season. [Continuity is] one reason.
"We had this one day [to prepare], for us it really makes a massive difference.
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"Normally we only have two days between or three days between. So we should be recovered and can go again."
Klopp wanted his side to channel their emotion in the right ways in the first meeting between the teams since Virgil van Dijk suffered a season-ending injury earlier this term.
He said: "It's a derby and derbies are historically intense so that means we have to be intense.
"We have to be calm as well in the right moments and play football. We need to be emotional too, but channel that in the right direction. All these kinds of things."