Jurgen Klopp has compared Liverpool’s win over Luton to their comeback against Barcelona.
Wednesday’s Premier League encounter at Anfield saw the hosts fight back from a first-half deficit to rack up a comfortable 4-1 victory over the Hatters.
Klopp’s side memorably produced another four-goal blitz to see off the Catalan heavyweights in 2019’s Champions League semi-final second leg.
And the Reds’ manager believes there were striking parallels between the two due to the nature of the result and a growing number of senior players injured.
He said: “I will mention this game quite a few times,” said Klopp.
“I promised my team a few months ago that I would never mention the Barcelona game as an example and I used it again today so I broke my promise.
“This team at that time ignored the fact of who was missing and I wanted this team to ignore the fact of who is missing. This is now their example. This is now their Barcelona.
“Yes it was against Luton but it was a difficult situation with plenty of reasons to give up in moments but not tonight. I saw only a super group fighting.
“If you don’t limit yourself with bad thoughts you can fly, and that’s what the boys did.”