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Champions League holders still improving• ‘Against Salzburg, we were determined to keep a clean sheet’Andy Robertson has said
Liverpool command such respect in Europe they have become the team everyone wants to avoid in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
The European champions secured their place in the last 16 on Tuesday with an authoritative display at Salzburg, containing Jesse Marsch’s positive young team in the first half before dismantling them in the second. It was a performance that demonstrated the European expertise that has taken them to the past two Champions League finals and, Robertson insisted, the confidence to make it a hat-trick at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul in May.