Anfield redevelopment: Can Liverpool take the next step?

Another 8,500 people means more money and more noise on matchdays as Jurgen Klopp urges fans to get behind the team

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Liverpool will play their first home game of the season against champions Leicester City on Saturday evening, in front of 54,000 fans at the newly-developed Anfield stadium.

The crowd will be the biggest since 55,000 people crammed into the ground to watch the final match of the 1976-77 season against West Ham. The club believes the opening of the new Main Stand, with its 8,500 extra seats, will help it rediscover the kind of success it enjoyed in the 1970s.

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