Many Liverpool fans were stunned by the team that manager Jurgen Klopp has opted to go with for their lunchtime Premier League match against Brighton.
The club’s official website revealed the squad an hour before kick-off, with six changes to the side that lost 2-0 at home to Atalanta in midweek.
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Sadio Mane is rested, while the in-form Diogo Jota comes back in. Takumi Minamino replaces Curtis Jones and the likes of Nathaniel Phillips and Andy Robertson come back in for Rhys Williams and Kostas Tsimikas. Joel Matip was also deemed not fit enough to feature having played twice already this week, according to The Athletic’s James Pearce.
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— Liverpool FC (@LFC) November 28, 2020
With Liverpool’s catastrophic injury crisis in mind, Klopp is rotating his squad to the best of his ability, bearing in mind they have a huge Champions League clash in three days at home to Ajax.
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Despite this, supporters were not impressed with the decision and made their feelings clear on social media.
Fans react to shock starting line-up
No Matip on the bench, might cry
— George (@SeventySixRole) November 28, 2020
Matip injured pic.twitter.com/DoaHxn6Lys
— M A T T H E W (@LFCMATTHEW96) November 28, 2020
Just like Thiago is fine right
— Gini fan page (@giniwijnaldumsz) November 28, 2020
Omg Matip out ♂️
— WAZI LAD (@wazirilionel1) November 28, 2020
Wait… Matip’s actually injured again isn’t he… https://t.co/CvE2Pcexq6 pic.twitter.com/XTjPPBbqHH
— ℝ (@ftblrhys) November 28, 2020
Hang on, where’s Matip????? https://t.co/ntUHEP9lVL
— sal (@sxlang_) November 28, 2020
Matip is injured again, isn’t he? Like he’s genuinely injured again, he’s not even on the bench Also Trent please come back #BHALIV https://t.co/fv3ywUcM7h
— Aaron (@AaronD_97_) November 28, 2020
In other news, Liverpool suffer seismic blow as agent of ‘outstanding’ blow confirms plans to move to Premier League rivals.
