Inside Liverpool dressing room preparations as injury news kept quiet from Chelsea
If Liverpool are within their rights to head to Wembley lamenting a crippling injury crisis, the reality on the inside of the dressing room is very different.
Wednesday's 4-1 win over Luton Town was achieved without as many as 11 first-team stars as Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah became the latest casualties for the lengthy list.
Pictures of both in their kits on Friday have at least provided supporters with a sense of optimism that the influential frontmen can feature at Wembley, but it was noticeable that training pictures were not published by either official club channels ahead of the game in the same way they typically are.
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Perhaps that directive came from the top? It would be a leaf out of an old school book if Jurgen Klopp did indeed request that pictures be kept out of the public domain for fear of Chelsea getting an early insight into the Liverpool team news, but it would be accurate to reflect that those at the club have been determined to keep the Londoners guessing this week.
What is known, however, is that Klopp heads to Wembley without Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joel Matip, Thiago Alcantara, Curtis Jones, Diogo Jota, Dominik Szoboszlai, Ben Doak and Stefan Bajcetic. Should Salah and Nunez be added to that for Sunday's showpiece, the lack of options for Klopp will be glaring.
“It would be cool if we had 11 for each position, one is helpful, two or three which you can bring on, that is the luck you need,” says Klopp. “We played Saturday at Brentford and Sunday was not a great day. My phone sent all the wrong messages, ‘oh, ok’.
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