When Liverpool won the League Cup last month, Jurgen Klopp was quick to praise his entire camp rather than just the matchday squad selected on the day. After all, with 33 players utilised throughout the Reds’ run in the competition, a plethora of players not selected at Wembley against Chelsea had contributed to the overall success.
Listing a number of youngsters who had been blooded in the competition, along the likes of Takumi Minamino and Divock Origi in attack, the German bemoaned, “It would have been perfect if we could have had more players on the teamsheet.
“Today I had to make a few real tough decisions, and I said to the boys in the meeting, including the ones that were not on the teamsheet, ‘This is my squad , plus – and I hope I don’t forget anyone – Tyler Morton, who was slightly injured, Conor (Bradley), Owen (Beck), Harvey (Blair), Elijah (Dixon-Bonner) played some minutes as well, Adrian saved our ass in Preston’.
