Liverpool consider Diogo Jota position as Jurgen Klopp confronts new midfield question
Liverpool maintained their strong start to the season with a hard-earned League Cup victory at Bournemouth on Wednesday evening.
Cody Gakpo and substitute Darwin Nunez were on target as the Reds secured a 2-1 triumph to set up a quarter-final tie at home to West Ham United next month.
Liverpool will now resume their Premier League challenge when they travel to Luton Town on Sunday afternoon.
And here we look ahead to the changes Jurgen Klopp could make when his team are next in action.
Defensive overhaul
That there are more than three days between the trip to Bournemouth and the game at Luton prompted Klopp to go perhaps stronger at the Vitality Stadium than may have been anticipated.
But there are still likely to be wholesale changes for the starting line-up at Kenilworth Road, particularly in defence. Alisson Becker will replace Caoimhin Kelleher in goal, while Trent Alexander-Arnold should return at right-back in place of Joe Gomez with Conor Bradley still sidelined.
Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate were rested in midweek and are expected to step back in, although Joel Matip and Jarell Quansah did well at centre-back at Bournemouth with Gomez another option. Kostas Tsimikas is favourite to continue at left-back, with Andy Robertson injured and youngster Luke Chambers not involved on Wednesday.
Midfield returns
Klopp experimented with his midfield options throughout the Bournemouth game, but he will be expected to revert to a more recognised starting engine room at the weekend.
The major decision is whether to recall Curtis Jones on the left of the midfield three with the 22-year-old having now served a three-match domestic suspension, given the form of Ryan Gravenberch in the position in his absence. Jones, though,
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