Jurgen Klopp mentioned Liverpool’s youngsters in Sunday’s Carabao Cup ultimate win over Chelsea had been prepared for that second by the “environment we’ve created together” behind the scenes.
Without the likes of Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dominik Szoboszlai, Darwin Nunez within the matchday squad, Klopp named quite a few youngsters on the bench. Many of them got here on and noticed Liverpool by way of throughout extra-time when Klopp’s workforce had been really on high.
“I’m pretty sure when we brought on all the kids, people thought, ‘Okay, that’s it, they’ve given up, they have a game on Wednesday’,” the boss informed Sky Sports afterwards.
“It really wasn’t the case – we needed fresh legs and the legs we had were very young. But they did the job. They did the job. What they did…it’s unbelievable.”
Bobby Clark, Jayden Danns and James McConnell have all performed solely a handful of first-team video games between them. Conor Bradley began the sport, having turning into a key participant in current weeks. Jarell Quansah additionally appeared within the second half of extra-time and remains to be solely 21.
Asked the way it was potential to get that degree of efficiency out of a gaggle so younger, Klopp responded: “I think it’s the environment that we’ve created together. They’ve trained with us for a while so they know exactly what they have to do. When we have time for 11 v 11 in training, they’re a pain. That’s what you have to be, and they were a pain [for Chelsea].”
He continued: “It’s not only them. How good was Harvey Elliott? [Wataru] Endo, oh my God. He walked up for the ceremony with the stiffest legs I ever saw. We’ll have to see what price we pay for this game. But you cannot do it differently. You’re in a final, you fight with all you have and then have a look who’s available for the next game. There will be a team in a Liverpool shirt.”
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