The tie will be the first time the two clubs have met in Europe and the first all-English two-legged tie in Europe since United’s Champions League quarter-final win over Chelsea in 2011.
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The Swiss side’s St Jakob-Park ground will host the final.
The Reds have lost home and away to United in the league this season but Klopp insisted it was the draw he had been hoping for.
“After the game with a 1-0 I am completely fine as I know there are no injuries”, said Klopp, who will discover Liverpool’s opponents in the next round when the draw is made at midday on Friday. It’s not easy. I told my staff yesterday that I wanted Man United.
Jurgen Klopp is desperate for success at Liverpool, beginning with the League Cup final against Manchester City.
“We want to score more goals, the first step to do that is creating more chances, and that’s what we did tonight”.
The games will be played on 10 and 17 of March and the match will be certainly interesting.
“We couldn’t control the game in the last 20 minutes and it was hard, that is how it should be, but we are in the next round”.
“In this round, there were no easy games so we had no chance for an easy game”.
However, Klopp welcomed the draw, saying: “It’s great”.
Valencia, managed by former England defender Gary Neville, face fellow Spanish side Athletic Bilbao, while Sevilla – winners of the last two Europa League titles – play Basel of Switzerland.
Juergen Klopp’s men defeated Augsburg 1-0 on aggregate while United overturned a first-leg deficit to beat FC Midtjylland 6-3 on aggregate.
Liverpool scored early but then limped to a 1-0 win over Germans Augsburg on Thursday night to progress by the same score on aggregate.
Holders Sevilla faced a kinder draw against Basel, where this season’s final will be held, but there was nothing kind about Borussia Dortmund being paired with Tottenham Hotspur.
With eight trophies, Liverpool are the League Cup’s most successful club, but they have not procured any silverware since they last won the tournament in 2012.
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The other matches are Shakhtar Donetsk against Anderlecht, Villarreal against Bayer Leverkusen, Sparta Prague against Lazio, and Fenerbahce against Braga.
