Despite the current circumstances, our German head coach insisted he will still have his side ready to push to the maximum to beat Jurgen Klopp’s Reds tomorrow, who currently sit one point behind us in the table on 41 points.

‘Normally we do this and I will be in this mode when matchday comes but today we need to assess a little but because the run where we come from, we come from the circumstances and the situations which are how they are, so we struggle to have our best performances out there, we struggle to have the very best results,’ the Bavarian said in his pre-match press conference.

‘This is something to admit and that’s why the feeling is a bit different than after Leicester, Juventus and the Man United game where we felt whatever’s coming bring it to us and we will deal with it,’ he added.

‘So now things feel harder and more difficult and more complicated, it’s like this, it’s one of these days so we need to be well prepared, the situation around it and why we are in this difficult place will not change even if we win games, I said this weeks before.’

Tuchel also mentioned how he believes performances that garner such fatigue like those against Wolves and Brentford, due to a depleted squad, are now starting to catch up with his side.

‘Even if we overcame it once with Academy players and with 14 players in the squad when we arrived in Wolverhampton and half of it was from injury, you can survive a match of course but at some point it catches you, how will it not happen, we have to be aware of it.

‘We will push to the maximum to beat Liverpool,’ Tuchel said. ‘The day after Liverpool no matter if we make it or not, the situation will catch us again because we are in this situation and that’s why we struggle and this will not go away by one win. But we will fight for the win of course.’