Liverpool should be considered “slight favourites” ahead of their crunch tie with Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the Champions League, German football expert Raphael Honigstein believes. 

Jurgen Klopp’s side are currently joint top in the Premier League with current champions Manchester City, with a game in hand over Pep Guardiola’s side, and face a Bayern side who are second in the Bundesliga this season.

And Honigstein believes Liverpool’s style of play under Klopp will hurt Bayern in their last 16 clash, though also argued that Bayern are always capable of getting a result.

Speaking on BT Sport’s ‘Score’ show on Saturday afternoon, Honigstein said:

I think Liverpool have some strengths that can really hurt Bayern. Bayern don’t like to play against teams that attack in numbers, that attack with pace and are good on the counter attack – all the things that Liverpool are good at, Bayern don’t enjoy.

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At the same time, even a Bayern team that isn’t collectively that convincing and is a little bit hold and cold, still has enough top class players to get a result.

Liverpool will be without the suspended Virgil van Dijk on Tuesday, while Dejan Lovren and Joe Gomez are also set to miss the first leg, and Honigstein believes Bayern are in a strong position to grab an away goal.

With Liverpool’s injury problems and suspensions at the back, with no van Dijk, probably no Lovren and certainly no Gomez, Bayern will feel like they can get an away goal and can get a decent platform to take back to Munich.

However the German champions will travel to Liverpool with both Thomas Muller and Arjen Robben already ruled out, while Kingsley Coman could also miss the first leg.

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The winger scored twice as Bayern came from behind to win against Augsburg on Friday night, before limping off late on.

A scan on his ankle revealed the problem could not be as bad as initially feared, however, so the Frenchman could still feature against Liverpool.

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