When is one injury one injury too many?
Clearly never, if you have Jurgen Klopp as your manager.
What Liverpool did to Chelsea at Wembley on Sunday was incredible. Make no mistake, this win was up there with the best - perhaps the best - of Klopp’s reign.
The subplots were clear, but a reminder of the broad strokes for the record, and because it’s always worth remembering the odds Liverpool overcame.
Eleven injuries, including no Mohamed Salah or Darwin Nunez, whose hopes of playing were extinguished in the build-up to the game. Another problem when Ryan Gravenberch was stood on by the clumsy Moises Caicedo inside half an hour, the Dutchman left on crutches after the game. Poor officiating, VAR interventions and a bench full of youngsters.
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All pitched against a bloated, billion pound machine that, prior to the match, threatened to cough and splutter into life for the first time this season.
But Liverpool overcame. Klopp’s men playing like lions, embarrassing the Londoners with their sheer will to win.
It was nothing short of incredible, but then it’s hardly surprising.
For Chelsea 2024, see Everton 2020 and Curtis Jones arriving on the scene in style.
Or what about 2019 and a certain corner taken quickly.
You can even go back several nights to Luton Town at Anfield for evidence of what belief can do.
Klopp makes the impossible seem possible, the improbable virtually a sure thing.
And so Liverpool lifted their 10th League Cup with victory over Chelsea and Klopp is going out the way he came in, by instilling a belief and hope back into a football club that,
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