Friday 15 April 2016 11:55, UK
Liverpool vice-captain James Milner believes their dramatic victory over Borussia Dortmund could prove to be a watershed moment in the reign of Jurgen Klopp.
The Reds twice came back from two goals down to win 4-3 on the night, 5-4 on aggregate, with Dejan Lovren's added-time goal putting them into the semi-finals, and Milner thinks the win will prove to be hugely significant for the Liverpool squad in the future.
"It will do a lot. I have said at times this year that I don't think there is that belief there that the boys believe how good they are," Milner said.
"It is a young team and sometimes we struggle for consistency but to beat a team like Dortmund and to come back the way we did and going this far in a major European competition is obviously massive.
"We got to the League Cup final and while we didn't win we put ourselves in position again.
"Hopefully we can get belief from this. if we can beat them we can beat anyone and hopefully we can now go on to win some silverware. It was the same when I was at City and we managed to win that first piece of silverware."
Klopp has a reputation for being a master motivator and he was at his best during the half-time interval when Liverpool trailed 2-0.
"The manager was brilliant," Milner added. "He was calm. He said, 'We are not playing too badly. It is a long way back, we have lost the first half but you have nothing to lose, go out and do it'.
"It would have been easy for him to come in effing and blinding but he didn't. He reminded us of a situation where the club has come through a similar situation before.
"He obviously mentioned a certain night in Istanbul and said there have been other great nights in this club's history from a similar position so go out and see what happens. I think it was the perfect atmosphere created at half-time to be honest."
With a Champions League place on offer for the Europa League winners there is the temptation to put all their focus onto Europe - Liverpool are currently eighth, nine points behind fourth-placed City with a game in hand - but Milner dismissed that.
"We will try to win every game. It is important to try to finish strongly in the league," he said ahead of Sunday's trip to Bournemouth.
"The performance was good at the weekend against Stoke [a 4-1 win] and I think that contributed massively to the Dortmund result and gave us the momentum to keep winning games."
