Liverpool face MK Dons in the Carabao Cup tomorrow and there could be a host of debuts with four players poised to start and a fifth on the bench.
Liverpool Football Club will visit MK Dons tomorrow evening in the Carabao Cup and it could be a momentous night for four or five young Reds who are set to make their first team debuts.
Jurgen Klopp is set to rest all his first team players and we are not expecting to see any of those who started at Stamford Bridge on Saturday when the Reds beat Chelsea 2-1 except to fill the bench.
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Senior player injuries have almost guaranteed a handful of starts to some young stars. Divock Origi, Alisson Becker and Xherdan Shaqiri will all miss the game with the Swiss international being ruled out today after picking up an injury in training yesterday.
That places Caoimhin Kelleher as near certainty to start in-goal as the 20-year-old Irishman deputizes for Adrian between the sticks.
Rhian Brewster should make his long-awaited debut in a Red shirt for the first team. He was forcing his way into consideration in the 2017/18 season but a year out with injury has delayed his debut. That should be rectified tomorrow.
The injury to Shaqiri opens the door for Harvey Elliott to make a start on the right of the attack as Klopp has few attacking options outside of the regular front three who will surely be rested.
Interestingly it was Assistant Manager Pep Lijnders who took today’s press conference. It appears that the League Cup is being used by the club to develop talent on the sideline as well the pitch!
The other player poised to appear for the first time is Yasser Larouci who should pip Adam Lewis to be the left back to understudy Andrew Robertson. On the bench should be Sepp van den Berg who will back up Joe Gomez and Dejan Lovren who will start.