Jurgen Klopp has explained his decision to start James Milner instead of Joe Gomez at right-back against Genk.
Liverpool made a few changes to the side that drew with Manchester United for their trip to Belgium on Wednesday.
With Trent Alexander-Arnold unavailable, Milner started at right-back over Gomez, while Klopp chose an incredibly adventurous midfield.
Liverpool’s insipid performance in the United draw went some way to explaining the second call, but Klopp himself sought to clarify the first.
“I don’t see it as though I picked James over Joe,” he said. “I only picked Millie.
“Trent, we found out on Tuesday morning that he had become ill. It wasn’t a lot of time for us and we wanted to change as little as possible.
“In the way we wanted to play, Millie was the clear number one solution for that moment.
“But after 15 minutes already it was clear that we had to try to change a bit again.
“Joe did really well when he came on, he looked confident and clear. It was good. It was nothing against Joe.”
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