No different from a post-match thread here, then.
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It could be (could) that the schedule gives him no choices on who’s playing given the importance of winning. A dead rubber did give him that choice. He rested those who needed it and played those who improve with time on the pitch. Or something like that.
As for VAR, took cricket 10 years to get it to the point where dreadful decisions reduced to a point to make it worthwhile.
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Yep Jürgen. That’s what you get for moaning all season and then starting your important players in an meaningless away game. 
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Why don’t you apply for his job instead?
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Who else would have played???
Klopp fielded four attackers to rest a midfielder. If he had rested Jota/Salah then Wijnaldum/Henderson had to play.
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Financially it was not a meaningless game.
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And don’t forget the all-important UEFA coefficient.
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Him playing meant Mane and Firmino got a rest.
But nah, let’s have a dig at the bloke who has been central to our recent revival because Ole Gunnar Hindsight over here knows better.
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Trent, Kostas, Keita, Taki and Origi started for playing time. The rest should have been youth players.
No need to play Jota, Salah, Fabinho, Firmino, Henderson, Mané…
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So what’s the point in having a squad if that’s the plan. You want the lads to stop training too?
We saw how raw some of the young lads were and how badly they faded. No one wants to send kids out to get a hammering and ruin confidence and momentum.
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I think Klopp would have fielded more youth players if he deemed them ready.
I know it’s frustrating that an in-form player got injured. specially considering Origi and Takumi aren’t chipping in; but we have take that in our strides.
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Are you talking about our already injury plagued / fatigue squad?
The game in Denmark was the only possibility to rest all important players during this schedule.
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Ready or not - game was meaningless.
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Exactly, they shouldn’t even been on the plane. We had a rare chance of taking a week off - a whole week! Special situations require special measures. It’s a congested season, our squad is injury-ravaged already, and we’re about to enter the ultra hectic festive period. Last season our U23s took a hammering in the cup at Villa, that didn’t ruin our momentum. This time we risked key players in an even less important game, there was literally nothing at stake, and if a couple of millions are enough to risk injuries, then I worry about our finances.
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I don’t think it was meaningless for Midgyland the way they set about to crock our best players still only got a goal thanks to VAR and a useless ref but Klopp got a lot of information about his youths and all his seasoned players played enough time to help those youths develop properly as we will need them in the FA cup games.
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I’ll defer judgement to the bloke that’s won all the titles and put that injury hit squad together.
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I really don’t get this, it doesn’t resonate with the ethos of the club, or professional football, for that matter.
It was an official first team game.
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The vila game was different
We had two games in 24 hours ( was it?) in different countries… different continents I think actually.
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And where does the welfare of our players rank in the ethos of the club? Above or below a dead rubber?
Villa game was an official first team game. It doesn’t resonate with the ethos of the club, or professional football, for that matter.
Klopp could left some first team players at home for the Villa game - because they weren’t all needed for the first CWC game.
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Crap. Winning the CWC was a big deal - we are still the reigning world champions. I think you are wrong about this one.
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