Klopp: Of course I'll celebrate if Liverpool score against Dortmund!

Jurgen Klopp believes it would be completely out of character for him to not wildly celebrate a Liverpool goal, even if it is against his former club Borussia Dortmund.

The Reds boss returns to the Westfalenstadion dugout 313 days since departing the club at the end of last season, with Liverpool facing the Bundesliga side in the Europa League quarter-final.

And despite spending seven years in charge at Signal Iduna Park, winning two championships, a DBF-Pokal, as well as securing a runners-up finish in the 2013 Champions League final against Bayern Munich, Klopp will not hold back should Liverpool find the net.

"I will celebrate, of course," he said. "I did it when I came back to Mainz with Dortmund, and I was there for 18 years. If after seven years they don't know me well enough that if my team should score then I will celebrate, well...

"It [my reaction] depends, if it's in the first minute I don't know, I won't go running down the line. But if it's important, if it's decisive, in this moment that's what happens.
"It's not that I plan this, but I will not go there and take some pills that means I won't celebrate a goal. At Mainz they knew about it. We had a big celebration when I left, it was 'thank you' and when I went back there it's what they expected.

"I did everything for Mainz, I did everything for Dortmund and now I do everything for Liverpool – it is like it is."

Klopp used the competitive relationship with his dad to illustrate that wanting to oust Thomas Tuchel's side from the European competition doesn't diminish the affection he has for the club.

"My father loved me overall but when we played something against each other he wanted to beat me," he explained.

"I needed 15 years to beat him for the first time, but that wasn't his problem and there was no doubt about our relationship.

"It's a game still, even if people are not always aware of it."