Liverpool handed selection dilemma as Jurgen KIopp prepares to unleash three youngsters
After making as many as 19 changes in his last two Liverpool matches, Jurgen Klopp may once more find his alterations being described as "wholesale" on Wednesday night.
The Reds get their Carabao Cup campaign underway against Champions League leaders Leicester City - perhaps the only club to be able to lay claim to having topped both the first and second divisions of English football in the last decade - and Klopp is expected to make at least a handful of changes to his team.
In goal, Caoimhin Kelleher will surely be brought back into the Liverpool team after his role in the 3-1 win over LASK in the Europa League last week. Klopp insisted that the cups were not necessarily going to lead to automatic minutes for the younger players in his squad given the strength in depth available to him this term but the Irish goalkeeper is no longer a young hopeful and is instead regarded as quality back-up.
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It will be interesting to see what happens with the right-back slot. Joe Gomez was excellent against West Ham United on Sunday and with Tottenham Hotspur to come away from home on Saturday evening, Stefan Bajcetic might be asked to step in as Trent Alexander-Arnold continues to shake off a hamstring complaint.
The Spanish youth returned after six months out injured last week and a run-out in the cup might be just what the doctor has ordered for Bajcetic. The question is how he can adapt to the new 'hybrid full-back' position that is being utilised by Klopp and his staff.
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