This Tuesday (27), Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said that the club need “miracles” after injury problems.
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The Reds defied a series of injuries to win the League Cup 1-0 against Chelsea in Sunday’s (25) final. Klopp is without 13 first team players, including Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez and Dominik Szoboszlai. “We need miracles with a few players. I don’t want to rule them out for too long”, said Klopp to the reporters.
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“But it is touch and go with a lot of players who were not available for the final: Darwin, Mo, Dom – we have to see what they can do. In an ideal world you’d think about these kind of things but we obviously don’t live in an ideal world so we will see when the players arrive and they get checked”, explained the manager.
It’s likely that Klopp will have to rely on some of the younger players who made a big impression at Wembley, like 19-year-olds Bobby Clark and James McConnell. “First and foremost, they don’t have to show anything. Our boys played in youth teams and under-21s and only came up recently and trained with us: absolutely nil experience but a lot of talent and they showed that”, said Klopp.
“What these boys have to do is to really enjoy what they are doing. They have to defend like men, otherwise they cannot play. I saw them doing that on Sunday and it obviously helped and it gave confidence and there are so many things you cannot buy”, added the manager.