Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has called on the Anfield crowd to make the difference during his side's UEFA Champions League clash at home to Red Star Belgrade today.

Liverpool won its opening Group C encounter 3-2 at home to Paris St-Germain but suffered a late away defeat by Napoli in its last match in Europe's elite club competition.

The Merseyside club sits second in the group on three points along with PSG and a point behind Napoli with only the top two going through to the knockout stage.

At his news conference yesterday, Klopp said the atmosphere at Anfield — where the fans in the Kop stand are famous for getting behind the team — could be Liverpool's secret weapon.

"We need to be ready for a really hard fight," he told reporters. "We need to be ready to fight for every little square of space with all we have and we need the crowd.

"We learned last year that the atmosphere can make the difference and we have to make sure of that again. It's a really hard group for all the teams and we have to make sure we make the next step against a really good side."

Red Star is bottom of the section but held Napoli 0-0. Liverpool faces the 1991 European Cup winner twice in the next two weeks looking to steal a march on its rivals.

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