Injuries are going to happen. We can’t wrap the players up in cotton wool and a lot of the main players will play in both games. People are expecting reserve teams to play against Porto and Milan but it’s not going to happen - there will be some rotation
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Klopp has already said he will be taking the games just as seriously. Don't have a problem with that at all, it was a shame what happened to Jota last season but like you say, injuries are going to happen. It would be a shame to have won the first 4 games and then get smashed in the last 2 because we decided to rotate everyone and play fringe players/youngsters, which it seems some people are expecting us to do.
We've had the toughest group and have a 100% record in it so far, I want that to continue and set us up perfectly for the next round. last season it was bizarre circumstances with the amount of injuries, otherwise the Jota injury wouldn't have seemed as bad as it did and had he not gotten injured then people wouldn't have moaned about him still having played. But that's the nature of the situation, people will only moan about someone playing a dead rubber if something happens, but if Jota hadn't of gotten injured and hit a hat trick then everybody would've been saying how great he was and what a good performance he'd put in.
We have a good enough squad to change it up a bit but still play the likes of Salah. But like you say, there will be changes, players will be rested and taken off early across the 2 games so people need to forget this idea of it being a completely different 11 in the final games.
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