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Juergen Klopp: Aston Villa will welcome league leaders Liverpool to Villa Park in the second of three-straight home fixtures in the league on Thursday (IST) just four days after playing out a 1-1 draw with Ipswich Town. Villa head coach Unai Emery claimed that Liverpool are doing even better under the tutelage of Arne Slot than they did with Juergen Klopp.

The Dutch head coach played the role of successor to Klopp who had a nine-year run in England’s top flight and also saw the end to the Merseyside team’s 30-year-long Premier League title drought in 2020. "We will have to compete adapting of them, because of course tomorrow Liverpool, they are going to demand [from] us a lot about everything, tactically and individually.

“I appreciate the very high performance they are getting this year, more than the last two years when I arrived here. Of course, with Klopp they did fantastic, but this year with Slot they are even doing better," said Emery in a press conference. “For me as a coach, it’s really a big challenge tomorrow, a great challenge to try to be motivated, how we can collectively set our gameplan against them. It is the most difficult match we are going to play for the last weeks and months," he said.