If the teamsheet prompted eyebrows to be raised, the post-match update sparked full-on meltdown among the more jittery sections of the Liverpool fanbase.
An inexperienced Reds side had just been beaten 3-0 by Strasbourg at Anfield in their final pre-season friendly when Jurgen Klopp addressed the surprise absence of both Naby Keita and Curtis Jones.
"Naby is ill and Curtis felt a little bit and couldn't take any risks," explained the Liverpool boss, who was already without injured quintet Alisson Becker, Caoimhin Kelleher, Kostas Tsimikas, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Diogo Jota.