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Ralph ready to face rival Klopp

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Vincent
Date04 January 2021
Published date04 January 2021
But the Austrian intends to blow apart that target this year, starting tonight against his old friend JURGEN KLOPP .

Those points, after an awful start to last season., saw Saints finish 11th in the PREMIER LEAGUE in 2019-20 when relegation could have been on the cards.

Tonight they go into their clash against Klopp's Liverpool in ninth place, but knowing that a win would lift them to within four points of the defending champions.

The pair (inset) started their coaching careers on the same course in Cologne when both were in their early 30s. Klopp had just taken charge at Mainz, while Hasenhuttl was winding down his playing career at second-tier Gruether Furth.

Hasenhuttl will be back on the touchline tonight to direct his team, after missing the draw with West Ham self-isolating after his wife tested positive for Covid.

The Saints manager, whose team go into tonight's game having lost only one of their last six games, said: "Yes we can beat that total.

"There are a lot of points to get. Now we have 26, and if we keep up this average we have a good chance of ending up in the top parts of the table. "This was the goal before the season." started, and it is a realistic target."

Hasenhuttl says it is important he is back on the sidelines tonight with as volatile a character as Klopp in the...

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