Klopp on tomorrow's approach, emotions and Villarreal

On how to approach the game...

It's like always in a football game. You have to defend on the highest, highest level and you need to score as often as possible - so I cannot see the biggest difference. It's normal. That's what I felt after 1-0 [in the first leg]. It was not the best moment in my life, to be honest, when Villarreal scored the goal in the 94th [minute] or something. It's a normal result and in a European match you can lose away 1-0 - it's absolutely normal. Nothing happened, we have the second half of this semi-final and we thought a lot about our game and we know more about what is useful and necessary for this game against Villarreal. We know about their strengths but we saw our strength too, even in the first game. Our skill, our quality, our passion, our readiness together with the atmosphere of Anfield - that's what I'm looking for.

On keeping a lid on emotions...

I'm fine, even when it doesn't look like this. We know we have 90-something minutes, but it is not about being patient in a patient way, it's about being patient with a clear direction - that's what it is. We need to show in each situation that we know about the game and the importance of the single situation, not with pressure, only with joy to go about it. You cannot go into this game and say, 'let's see what happens and then we will react' - that's not how it works. It's only playing football and I think most of the time football, maybe not all the time, is a fair game. So that means if we can play our best then we can go to the final - that's cool and I don't need more. If Villarreal plays better then they will go to final - it's deserved and I have no problem to say congratulations. But now we have 95 minutes between now and saying congratulations to whoever. We will see what happens. This game is a big opportunity in a difficult season for Liverpool. In October, Liverpool changed their manager and that's not a sign that it is a perfect situation and something went wrong until then. After the change, we developed, yes, but we had problems. We played sometimes really, really good and sometimes not that good.  But to be honest, when I think about it, we only had two really bad games - Watford and now Swansea, and Swansea was a different game to Watford because we changed the line-up a lot. So this team builds up consistency step by step and this good shape and good moment [we are in] we should use.

On the team's progression since his arrival...

When I thought about my team, I never had a limit where it could go. I don't know how far we are, which point of our way we are in this moment. This team, these players, gave me a lot of very positive signs about their qualities, potential, talent, plus attitude - that's good, really good. Now we don't have to think too much about this. We are ready. All we did since October we did to be perfectly prepared for a game like this tomorrow. All the good things, all the bad things - [let's] take all the experiences and put it in this semi-final and not with expecting a guarantee to go to the final. Then we will see what we get for it.

On whether this a game for Daniel Sturridge...

I was waiting for this question! Yes, [he] could be, 100 per cent. But I have made no decisions until now about the line-up. If you want to talk about this, we have to think how we will start in the game, how can we change in the game, how can we react to different situations - that's what I think about. And, of course, in all of these thoughts, Daniel Sturridge is absolutely involved.

On Villarreal's style of play...

We know about the style of Villarreal - they didn't change too often, to be honest. It's a really good tuned team. They changed eight positions at the weekend and won 2-0 at Valencia - that's not too easy, so that says everything about the quality. Because of this quality, I was satisfied with the first leg, not with the result. But at the end, a lot of people thought maybe we could have done more. But if we played a little bit more offensive, we would have opened space for them. We defended them well - better than other Spanish teams in this season. They scored one goal, they had one or two more chances - not too much. In all the others games, they have a lot more [chances]. That's all the good signs.

On Marcelino as a coach...

Unbelievable job. 100 per cent. I'm really not surprised. This club is a special club I would say, and they have a very good relationship with Marcelino. It's a very small city, [a] very successful football team in a football country - there will be a lot of Spanish teams in European finals and hopefully we can go there with an English flag. I don't know him too good but I saw a lot of their games in preparation for our game and it's quite impressive.

On the record of German teams against Spanish opposition in knockout stages...

I never lost against a Spanish team in a semi-final. Spanish football, in this moment, is really impressive because they have really good players. Yes, they have a lot of money and they combine really good players with this with good tactical advices, obviously from outside. They have really good teams. It's not that they all play like Barcelona or something like this. There's different styles and it's always a mixture of really good players. If you see Villarreal, for example, and see the past of the players, especially the young players, and you see where they come from - Barcelona B, Malaga and whatever - you see that [there is] good scouting too. Spanish football is a package, quite impressive. You need to be clever enough or dirty enough in the right moment to involve time play in their style and things like this. Long ago, we had experience like this in Sevilla. I think in the last 20 minutes, we saw the ball [for] one minute or something like this - experience comes with it too, that's how Spanish sides are. But to be honest, for us, [it's] absolutely not important if English teams would have lost in the last 20 years in each game against a Spanish team - I wouldn't care.