The Reds face Southampton in the Capital One Cup this Wednesday and playmaker Coutinho is in contention for the trip to the south coast.
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The good news for Liverpool, though, is that their injury list is clearing, which should give Klopp plenty of options to rest and rotate over the next month or two.
“I never have any doubt in these players and how good they are, what they are capable of”.
There are still 13 other quarterfinals to take into account from their European and FA Cup campaigns this century.
Liverpool legend Ian Rush believes his former club must concentrate on securing silverware this season as well as earning a return to the Champions League.
We all know how important they can be for us on the pitch.
Adam Bogdan is expected to start the League Cup tie with Southampton at St. Mary’s tomorrow, and Klopp confirmed as much – providing he gets the nod from the his goalkeeper coach.
“I would like to challenge for that No. 1 spot, but unfortunately there’s another guy who thinks the same!”
“You look at the quality of the whole bench, look at the players we have had injured”.
Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to Liverpool means Garry Monk’s men have picked up just one win from their last 11 games, a sequence that has seen them tumble down the Premier League table. The Saints have a really solid team and they will be tough to break down. He is a good football player.
Two of those, Raheem Sterling and Lazar Markovic, came up with the goals on the night but can not be called upon now. Aside from Phillipe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge the Liverpool team circa 2015 are, on paper at least, a squad of modest individuals. After a poor start to the season under the Rodgers, they have managed to rise to 6th place in the Premier League.
The visitors came through that tricky spell, breaking to engineer a couple of promising attacks of their own, as Gylfi Sigurdsson began to have more of an influence, but Liverpool’s defence remained solid.
Of course this is not a one-team discussion.
Yet they are still in the top 10 of the league and have reached this quarterfinal.
“Swansea defended very well”. Few expected to be sixth in the league by December.
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‘He will get fitter and will get better and the goal he scored against Bordeaux showed what he can do’. It looked like a team who are working very well, who are focused on what we need to do and are determined to get out of this.
