Jurgen Klopp has urged Liverpool fans not to attack Manchester City’s coach on Sunday.
The reigning Premier League champions expressed safety concerns to the Reds’ hierarchy ahead of this weekend’s top-of-the-table clash between the two clubs.
A poster circulating on social supporters to line the route to Anfield in a scene which carries unpleasant echoes of the 2018 Champions League quarter-final.
City’s team bus suffered major damage after it was pelted with bottles, flares and other objects as it arrived for the last eight tie, which the hosts won 3-0.
Klopp branded the incident 18 months ago as ‘senseless’ while discouraging fans attending Sunday’s game from participating in the mass gathering outside.
He said: “If somebody at Man City is concerned still – I don’t know if they are – then it’s our fault.
“We all didn’t throw the bottle or whatever it was, but it was one of us.
“So that’s why we are responsible for that and all of us have to make sure something like this will never happen again.
“I think it’s long ago and since then nothing happened. I don’t think it was Man City-specific or whatever.
“The punishment we got for that [from UEFA], we never had after that a similar situation. So there is a positive outcome of something like this.
“We used to enjoy that [welcome] when we came in. It’s impressive. It’s a nice part of football if you want but if you overstep the line then it’s not allowed to do [it] anymore. That’s how it is.
“I wish I could say that it never happen again but unfortunately I can’t. What I can say is that we do everything that [ensures] it will never happen again.
“Everyone has to feel responsibility that this will not happen again. Go in the stadium – nothing else to do outside. Get your food and go in, wait for the team.
“We will come and let’s make a pretty special game of it. That’s it.”