Central Defence is a dilemma for us now, certainly for the weekend. With Virgil and now Fabinho out, we start with Joe, but as it stands we are asking Joe to play 7 games in 22 days and that is risky as well. Not sure when Matip comes back but here is what Jürgen said after the match about other options:
"Apart from Rhys, we still have Nat Phillips, who for the reason that we thought he might make a transfer to another club, he is not in the Champions League squad, which is strange. But he is a centre-half as well. Billy [Koumetio] the kid, I’m not sure if he can train now tomorrow or not but he will be back in training. So, we have very young and inexperienced alternatives, and in the moment it looks like we have to choose one of them. I don’t know yet. But to be really clear and positive, Rhys was not in one situation tonight our problem, he played a really good game."
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