After Trent Alexander-Arnold, Stefan Bajcetic and Diogo Jota returned to the Liverpool squad to host Atalanta, Jurgen Klopp defined his staff choice.
Klopp made six adjustments to his facet from the 2-2 draw with Man United on Sunday, as Joe Gomez, Ibrahima Konate, Kostas Tsimikas, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott and Cody Gakpo got here into the facet.
There was additionally excellent news with Alexander-Arnold, Bajcetic and Jota named on the bench for the Europa League quarter-final.
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The trio have been sidelined for prolonged spells resulting from damage – Bajcetic’s final look was in opposition to Leicester in September – however have been capable of rebuild their health in coaching.
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Talking to TNT Sports activities forward of kickoff at Anfield, Klopp instructed that their minutes can be restricted on Thursday evening.
“I’m pleased with the lineup, however very pleased as effectively with the choices from the bench,” he defined.
“Clearly Trent and Diogo, and Stefan particularly, aren’t prepared to come back on at half-time or no matter.
“However they’re with us due to the European guidelines [with 12 substitutes], we will contain just a few gamers extra so we took all of them, that’s good.
“Tremendous necessary that now we have all of them again, and now let’s see once we can use them.”
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Alexander-Arnold has not performed because the 3-1 win over Burnley on February 10 after aggravating a knee damage, whereas Jota’s absence stretches again to the 4-1 victory at Brentford per week later.
Alisson was additionally again concerned in full coaching earlier within the week, however was not a part of the squad vs. Atalanta.
Liverpool: Kelleher; Gomez, Konate, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Endo, Mac Allister, Jones; Elliott, Gakpo, Nunez
Substitutes: Adrian, Quansah, Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Bradley, Bajcetic, Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Clark, Diaz, Jota, Salah
