The Liverpool team’s fourth day of the UEFA Europa League carries a lot of weight right now. Should the Reds triumph over the Toulouse team, they will advance to the next round of the competition and temporarily live up to the initial expectations. Klopp’s team will be the only one to qualify before the regular phase ends, when they play Union Saint-Gilloise.
With three wins in a row, the Reds are virtually guaranteed a spot in the next round, leaving Union Gilloise and Toulouse to battle it out for second place. With four points apiece, both the Belgian and French teams can still aim for first place, but they will need to play at an impeccable pace and hope the Reds suffer a couple of losses that knock them out of the top spot.
A draw in France would mean that Toulouse would have to give up the potential to lead since the could have accumulated five points with Liverpool at ten, handing Saint Gilloise a slim possibility of matching the Merseysiders points total in such case. Though in order to accomplish that, they must defeat LASK on Thursday and then defeat the Reds again. However, should this Belgian team tie or lose, this scenario would be forgotten, making room for the Premier League teams to go.While the other way to secure their spot in the next round is through two draws, Klopp and his team know that winning this Thursday on their visit to the Stade de Toulouse will put an end to any permutations or possibility of a comeback on the part of their rivals.
The Reds could qualify and it could still be unsatisfactory
The team needs to win both of its remaining regular-phase games in order to satisfy the high expectations of Merseyside supporters, who view winning this title as a must. A draw or loss would ruin the team’s perfect record. Achieving only 15 points and a respectable goal differential will also suffice.
