• Club captain has transformed from ‘an 8 into a 6 into a 4’
  • Manager believes versatile midfielder is ‘football smart’

Jürgen Klopp believes Jordan Henderson’s football brain has equipped him to become the answer to Liverpool’s centre-back problems. The champions’ injury crisis mean they visit West Ham on Sunday without their three senior specialist central defenders – in the sidelined Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joël Matip – or the defensive midfielder Fabinho, who had been deputising at the back.
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