LONDON – If Liverpool fans do not know it by now, Jurgen Klopp is taking the Europa League very seriously, as his side prepare to host Atalanta in their quarter-final, first-leg clash on April 11.

The Reds, along with 41-match unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen, are favourites to win European football’s second-tier club competition and they showed they meant business by putting 11 goals past Sparta Prague in the last 16.