Liverpool are back in Premier League action on Sunday afternoon for Spurs’ visit to Anfield.
The Reds return to Anfield following three consecutive matches on the road.
But, Tottenham arrive on Merseyside searching for vital points in their resolve to maintain top-flight status in the Premier League.
Spurs, currently 16th on 29 points, could slip into the relegation zone should they lose to Liverpool at Anfield later today.
However, Liverpool also have their own ambitions between now and the end of the league campaign, as the Reds look to ensure Champions League football next season.
But, a return to Anfield allows the Reds a swift opportunity to return to winning ways after the midweek defeat at Galatasaray in the Champions League.
Being encouraged by nearly 60,000 Reds is an advantage Arne Slot’s men are keen to make the most of as Liverpool host struggling Spurs.
“It’s a huge difference. We need them on Sunday, for sure,” Szoboszlai said. “Everybody who is able to come should come,” Dominik Szoboszlai said ahead of Spurs’ visit to Anfield.
The combative midfielder wants Liverpool to show a true representation of themselves when they take on Tottenham Hotspur.
“I think that’s never a problem but also we need them as loud as they can be, especially next week on Wednesday.
“We felt in Istanbul how it is to play in such a loud stadium with such great fans, but I think we can show the same at home. We’re going to need each of them.”
But, frustrated Arne Slot rues ‘same old story’ as Liverpool succumb to fresh setback.
The Liverpool manager has memories of his last two meetings with Tottenham and each, perhaps, is an illustration of what might have been.
In one sense, the high point of his reign came when Spurs last visited Anfield.
Liverpool had long looked on course for the title. On that April afternoon, they sealed it in emphatic fashion, a 5-1 cruise to glory.
Then there was the December win in London, the glimpse of what might have been. In a way, it was the £225m goal, created by Liverpool’s £450m spending spree.
Florian Wirtz provided the pass, Alexander Isak the finish, the £100m and the £125m man combining beautifully.
Joy soon gave way to concern. Isak’s leg was broken almost in the process of scoring, Micky van de Ven crunching into the striker after he unleashed the shot.
It was the Swede’s second league goal for Liverpool and, after a slow start, he had two in five games. He has not played since, and will not do so before the international break.
In one respect, it is hard to say Liverpool are missing Isak: they have barely seen him at his best.
But they are missing the Isak they thought they had signed, the player who was clinical for Newcastle.
Slot has said they have only seen him at his best for 20 minutes, at Tottenham. Then he was sidelined.
However, former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has said the Spurs hierarchy know how to get him should they need him to stabilize the north London club against relegation.
“They know where I am if they need me.
“They need somebody to go in there and give them a lift and make them believe in themselves,” Redknapp said while speaking at the Cheltenham Gold Cup, as played down rumours of a return to Tottenham.
“They’re bang in trouble, I must be truthful. It’s going to be tight at the bottom, isn’t it?”
Redknapp enjoyed a successful near four-year spell at Tottenham between 2008 and 2012, winning 71 of 144 Premier League games and securing top-four finishes in two of his three full seasons.
But, current interim manager Igor Tudor has lost all four games since replacing Thomas Frank on 14 February 14, leaving Spurs just a point above the Premier League’s bottom three and needing to overturn a 5-2 first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Tudor’s position has come under intense scrutiny following his decision to substitute Antonin Kinsky after the goalkeeper gifted early goals to Marcos Llorente and Julian Alvarez in Tuesday’s heavy defeat in Spain.
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