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Jurgen Klopp names Liverpool substitute who 'deserved to play' against Newcastle

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Vincent
Published date30 April 2022
Publication titleLiverpool Echo: Web Edition Articles (England)
Joe Gomez, Joel Matip, James Milner, Naby Keita and Diogo Jota all came into the starting XI in place of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara and Mohamed Salah as the German rotated his side with one eye on the Champions League semi-finals

With the Reds still chasing an unprecedented quadruple, Klopp was always going to make changes against the Magpies. And with his squad depth stronger than it’s ever been at Anfield, the Liverpool manager revealed why he doesn’t actually find it that difficult picking his starting XI on a weekly basis.

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“It’s my job to make decisions. I don’t have to do a lot of other things,” he told reporters after the final whistle. “Kostas Tsimikas would have deserved to play as well and Robbo could have had a break as well.

“But when you take out one full-back and a centre-half, if you take out the other full-back and it’s three changes in the last line, what I think is, ‘No, don’t do that...

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