Curtis Jones hasn’t been the luckiest player when it comes to injuries over the past two seasons. As a result, having only made his latest return as a substitute against Brentford last week, it perhaps went under the radar when he was absent from the Liverpool matchday squad against Wolves on Saturday.
Yet 16 hours later and he was surprisingly starting for the club’s Under-21s against Tottenham Hotspur, as the young Reds were on the wrong side of a controversial red card issued to Calvin Ramsay midway through the first half and fell to a 2-0 defeat.
With first team manager Jurgen Klopp watching on, Jones played the entire first half against Spurs before being withdrawn at half-time. Such a change was pre-planned, with the German departing the Academy at the break.
