Monaco scored a late victor (72nd minute, through Bernardo Silva) to grab the victory – and a massive second away goal – in the first leg in Spain.
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On Tuesday they travel to Burton from England’s second tier in the League Cup, a competition they have won a record eight times but now enter at an early stage due to their failure to qualify for Europe this season.
He said: “It’s not about who can play when”.
“We are professionals so it’s the next opportunity for us to get a result, even when it’s not for the table. I don’t know in this moment 100% what will happen, but it’s not that we have a preferred position where we are looking for players”.
Liverpool striker Divock Origi “has no rhythm at the moment”, according to manager Jurgen Klopp.
“Daniel is still a very good player, there is no doubt about it”. “But in this moment it’s not that we have a main thing to do, that our feeling is in this position we have nobody or we have the feeling we can not work with the player in the position or something like this”.
Goalkeeper: Loris Karius remains out with a hand injury and although Klopp may be tempted to give Alex Manninger a run out, I think Simon Mignolet will keep his place between the sticks. “Obviously, they can play together”.
“With a lot of injuries in the last few years, a few muscle issues, I have no idea exactly how this changes the mind of a player”.
The Reds boss has been linked with adding to his squad before the window shuts, but while he accepts that anything can happen until 31st August, he explained that he cannot wait for the window to close and believes he can improve the players he already has on the training pitch. Without any left-back cover though, Alberto Moreno will likely play on the other side – having sat our for James Milner against Burnley.
“He needs to find that rhythm again”.
“When the tempo of the Premier League bites you, even two games in, and you can’t blitz teams like City away last season, what then?”
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“I don’t compare him with the younger Daniel Sturridge, if you like”. He is a really good player with all you need when he is fit. Trent Alexander-Arnold was absent, though, and could start at right-back on Tuesday night.
