Liverpool dressing room revelation shows how one player is becoming undroppable
When Trent Alexander-Arnold traipsed back to the dressing room at half-time on Saturday, the revelation of having suffered a recurrence of his knee injury was perhaps among the last things Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp would have wanted to hear.
With flu-stricken Joe Gomez having joined Conor Bradley in being unavailable for the home Premier League clash against Burnley, the Reds had been shorn of all of their obvious right-back options.
While Kostas Tsimikas was back on the bench after more than six weeks out, introducing a not fully-fit player in an unaccustomed position given Andy Robertson was making his first start at left-back in four months wouldn't have been ideal.
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Klopp, though, didn't have to think twice about his preferred solution. And once again, Curtis Jones demonstrated his versatility and flexibility by filling the breach.
"We told Curtis what he had to do so we changed formation slightly and tried to make it as simple as possible for him, because it was first time in the life he has played the position (in the Premier League) and we didn't want him to be the inverted right-back and have to think about these things as well," explained the Reds boss later. "He did exceptionally well."
Jones wasn't entirely alien to the position having played at right-back in the League Cup win over Leicester City at Anfield back in September. Being asked to fill in at short notice for the second half of a finely-balanced top-flight game was an altogether different proposition, however.
The 23-year-old, though, rarely put a foot wrong, with his security on
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