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Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool looking sharp after Spain trip

Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool face Tottenham next in the Premier League
Image: Jurgen Klopp took his Liverpool squad to Spain for training this month

Liverpool will be "spot on" for their Monday Night Football meeting with Leicester despite 16 days without a game, Jurgen Klopp says.

Klopp took his squad to Spain for training after last month's defeat to Wolves left the Reds without an FA Cup fifth-round tie.

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And the German has no concerns about his players' match sharpness ahead of a trip to the King Power, where the champions will be led by Craig Shakespeare following Claudio Ranieri's sacking.

"We are used to it," he said. "It is a two-week break. It's not that we left the country and didn't play football for a year.

"It's two weeks, that's not a real problem. We played in La Manga - an internal game but it was a proper game - and we had sessions.

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"It was a proper camp. Circumstances there are really good for a football camp - I knew it before because I was there five times with Dortmund when we had a winter break.

"When you have games every three days you say it's too much but when you have one a week or a two-week break then it's not enough.

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"It's our job to do and we know this. We have to be spot on Monday night and play the best football we are able to do. We expect a lot from us. We want to go there and be good, organised and we want to win the game."

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