5 reasons why Liverpool need to be taken seriously for the upcoming season

#5 Last season's Champions League run shows what they can do

Liverpool dominated the Champions League like no other

While a side's dominance is usually measured by the trophies they preserve in their cabinets, but Liverpool went the other way around and defined another kind of football for legions of its supporters.

The Reds were perhaps the most dominant English team to step up in the Champions League competition this season when most of the critics never even considered them to survive the knockout rounds.

Liverpool also broke many records this season in the UCL, with the Reds becoming the only club, besides Bayern Munich, to score seven twice in one competition.

The Reds also broke the all-time records of goals scored by a club in a single UCL season. The side scored 47 goals in 15 games, with an average of 3.13 goals per season. Klopp's side went on to humiliate their opponents on multiple levels and became the first English side in almost 8 years to reach the Champions League Final.

Despite losing to Real Madrid, in what could have been Karius' silly mistakes, the Reds still dominated and felt like a big European team.

Many football fans all around the world believed that Liverpool was the only side who could dethrone Real Madrid this season and that speaks a lot about the team's strength as a whole.

Jurgen Klopp and his army took Liverpool to their first Champions League Final in almost 12 years, and with Keita, Fabinho, Shaqiri, and possibly Nabil Fekir, the side is ready to win the big one this time around.