Your team v Burnley
A draw against the League leaders often isn't a bad result, but Reds everywhere will feel disappointed at the inability to get 3 points from a game within which we should probably have been awarded a penalty, should have seen Trent convert a glaring chance and where we were on fire for a spell of the second half before some changes - some of which will undoubtedly have been made to protect an ever-diminishing squad.
As ever, rotation is ideal, though becoming harder to do due to injury issues - Tsimikas and Robertson are now simultaneously out which leaves us limited in our left-back options, whilst Diaz is a "wait-and-see" in attack to join Jota in the unavailable department - though Diogo is due back soon.
In midfield a few lads are out too, whilst others can't quite get a grip on their form/consistency.
Burnley are terrible, but we are tired and a few will be running on fumes.
As ever, I don't expect Klopp to field my personal pick, but that's not the point of these threads.
.......................Alisson
Trent......Quansah...Van Dijk...Gomez
.........................Endo
.............Elliott.......Gravenberch
.....Salah.........Núñez.....Gakpo
I feel Gravenberch might need game time to come back into form - he certainly wouldn't be in the side on merit after his Arsenal cameo - and I feel Szoboszlai would benefit from missing 45-65 minutes if possible.
Gakpo has left-wing experience at his previous club and Núñez is a physical presence - the front three can be swapped about as the game goes on if required, not to mention Szoboszlai has right-wing experience at his previous club if we wanted to put him in for an attacker rather than a mid.
If it was a side better than Burnley I would be picking Jones from the start, but I feel there are halves of matches where you can "get away with" a slightly weaker line-up due to the quality of your opposition, then bring on the cavalry. The side needs to get a reprieve somewhere and after that performance I hope we could take that risk here - though I can totally see why others would disagree with that methodology.
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