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| Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson like Brazil symbols and Liverpool should demonstrate no Barcelona dread |
Jurgen Klopp has been asked to go for the jugular when Liverpool meet Barcelona as Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson were compared to Brazil legends Roberto Carlos and Cafu.
The Reds fly out to Spain on Tuesday in front of the primary leg of their Champions League semi-last tie at Camp Nou on Wednesday evening.
For the netural, it pits two of the best assaulting groups in Europe against one another with any semblance of Lionel Messi, Philippe Coutinho and Luis Suarez squaring off against Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and conceivably Roberto Firmino .
Klopp 's side normally hope to force their own amusement on procedures yet will confront the overwhelming prospect of a Barca side who secured their eighth La Liga title in 10 years a week ago.
Lawrenson, however, figures Liverpool shouldn't be overawed when they are engaged in Catalonia before about 100,000 supporters.
The ex-protector, who won 10 noteworthy distinctions at Anfield, figures the Reds ought not be making any unique strategic changes to how they work when they meet Ernesto Valverde's Spanish heroes on Wednesday.
Lawrenson told the ECHO: "A ton of football crews endeavor to change the manner in which they play when they face Barcelona, however I don't think Jurgen Klopp will do that with his Liverpool group.
"You take a gander at the front three they have with Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane and you question is there any good reason why they wouldn't go to the Nou Camp and assault?
"In the event that you believe that is your quality, at that point you need to do it. The two groups have mind boggling assaulting players, however Liverpool have a superior safeguard.
"We can go there and be positive about assaulting and in the event that they score first, or even make tracks in an opposite direction from home, that is enormous for the tie. It's an incredible method to be."
With a sum of 24 helps between them this season, full-back team Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson have been instrumental to Liverpool's supported push for distinctions this term.
Robertson's aggregate of 13 is two more than his right-sided associate Alexander-Arnold and the pair have a well disposed competition over who will end the crusade with the most helps.
Lawrenson compared the pair's impact on this present Liverpool group to that of notorious Brazil team Roberto Carlos and Cafu, who both featured for La Selecao amid their triumph at the 2002 World Cup.
Robertson said a week ago that the hostile full-backs wouldn't tailor their strategy at Barca and it is a perspective Lawrenson concurs with.
He included: "I am absolutely with Robertson there in light of the fact that is there any good reason why you wouldn't play to your qualities?
"They make so much and open up so much space, so they can get some happiness on the off chance that they bomb on.
"In the event that you see Liverpool's group, clearly with the front three, the two full-backs once in a while make it five assailants. Jordan Henderson has had an alternate job generally, however all the midfielders buckle down so help them flourish.
"Tune in, I am not saying these two are as great, yet they help me to remember the effect the two full-backs Roberto Carlos and Cafu had on the incomparable Brazil side.
"They give the assault an additional measurement as the Brazil safeguards did, they have a similar sort of effect in the group."
Liverpool's prosperity over the two legs against Barca will rely on how well they handle five-time Ballon d'Or champ Lionel Messi and previous Reds hotshot Suarez.
Argentina global Messi has pillaged 46 objectives as of now this term and has by and by been the main impetus behind Barca's prosperity, while Suarez has gotten 21 of his own for the Blaugrana.
"Messi is a flat out virtuoso and in the event that he turns it on for even 30 minutes, he will be extremely hard to stop," included Lawrenson. "Luis Suarez as well.
"On the off chance that he had remained at Liverpool another a few years, we could be discussing him nearby notwithstanding King Kenny (Dalglish) at Anfield and I imply that.
"He scored objectives for no particular reason at Anfield and not in any case ordinary ones, they were typically worldies!
"At the point when Barcelona marked Suarez in 2014, I was told from a solid source who I believe that Messi went to the mentor at the time Luis Enrique and asked where Suarez was going to play.
"Obviously Enrique said he expected to address Messi about it, however he just advised his mentor to play Suarez where he needed and he would work around him to accommodate his amusement to coordinate Suarez.
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