Jurgen Klopp has confirmed the door to Liverpool’s starting XI is open to all his players as the Reds try to salvage their season in the final 10 games of the campaign.
The German made six changes to his side for Tuesday’s 0-0 draw at Chelsea as Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Cody Gakpo, Harvey Elliott, and the ill Virgil van Dijk all dropped out from the team that had been thrashed 4-1 away at Man City days earlier.
Such results have left Liverpool winless in their last three Premier League matches since their 7-0 victory over Manchester United at the start of last month. As a result, they have dropped to eighth in the table and have a 10-point deficit to make up if they are to qualify for next season’s Champions League.
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Klopp has refused to rule out further changes to his side in the weeks ahead as the Reds desperately search for a return to form. And while his side continued to be criticised for their struggles, he insists he has to focus on the positives.
“We had now one proper session since then (Chelsea),” he told reporters. “The boys don’t show me that they don’t want it outside, not at all. ‘Let me out, let me out,’ so now you can try and sort yourself or whatever. This is not the situation we are in.
“I said before the game and I say it now, this is a different week because we play three times but from now on, if we don’t play three times a week, then we have more time to train. Then I have to and I will make decisions about the team based on what I saw in training.
“That opens the door for everybody because if you play three times a week, then the boys who play all the time, they recover. The other boys can train well but the last game we won, so why would you make six changes? Because we saw one session where a few players show up and it’s a different situation. You let it go and you keep on building and building and building.
“Now what can we build on? We have to change and we have to find a base which we can really build on. The first step is intensity, desire, passion. Good at Chelsea, really, that was good. The rest, not so much. But it’s fine, so let’s go from there.
“I cannot constantly ask for something that I didn’t get and just put the finger into that. Development doesn’t work like that. ‘But this was still not okay, and this was still not okay, and this was not okay!
“You (the media) are allowed to do that, absolutely. You are allowed to do that because you don’t work with the boys, but I’m not. The one in charge is not allowed to do that.
“I’m really calm in this moment. You might be surprised but I’m really calm. I’m in it, I see everything and I base my decisions on that. In the end, we will see what the outcome is. I cannot do more. We have to keep going and we will.”
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