Liverpool will be without right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold when they take on Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup on Sunday.
Steve Cooper’s Reds host the Premier League giants at the City Ground in a tasty-looking quarter-final tie this weekend. It will be the first time the two sides have met since April 1999.
The visitors will be without at least one of their key players, however, as Alexander-Arnold is set to miss the game with a hamstring injury which is expected to sideline him for a number of weeks. Mo Salah is also a doubt with a foot problem.
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Asked about the possibility of rotating his side against Forest, Klopp said in his pre-match press conference: “We will see. I really have no idea in this moment. The analysis will follow.
“I saw the Nottingham FA Cup game against Huddersfield. The deeper analysis will follow today, and then we will make a decision about the line-up.
“We have a couple of issues from the last game, and before. People were ill. Hopefully I don’t get any news about people being ill today. So far I haven’t had that, but the boys come in slightly later.
“Trent is out with a hamstring. He cannot be part of England as well - no good news, we will see how long that takes.
“Mo felt his foot a little bit again after the game (against Arsenal in midweek), so we have to see what we do with that. On top of that, we have some other bits and bobs. It’s always like that. We have to wait and see.
“I want to have a team against Nottingham which is fresh enough, physically and mentally, and is really going for it. If we rotate, and I really don’t know at the moment, then it’s just to have the best team possible for this specific game on the pitch.”
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He added : “To replace Trent is difficult. But it is possible. We have a couple of options. But he has been very influential.”
