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Ajax continue to produce the best talent and when they lose one to the big guys, they bring in another
Jurgen Klopp spoke to BT Sport ahead of tonight’s game, trying to stay positive, he said: « Curtis Jones is good enough That’s it But also the situation of course
« We have some issues, so we need to make sure we can start, and how we can end the part So that’s the reason
« He’s good enough That’s why he plays We don’t think about (the absent Alisson and Virgil van Dijk) but we are constantly asked questions about it so it’s hard not to think about it!
« But when we’re alone you focus on the available players, and do whatever you have, that’s what you do
« Football depends on the individual quality of the players, but not as much as people might think It’s all about perception
« You think that in unique situations: ah, with Van Dijk, it would have been different Yes But we can’t change that
« So we don’t think like that, we’re just trying to play the best football we can do »
Ajax have won just one of their previous seven UEFA Champions League home games (D2 L4), with two of the last three losses of this round against English rivals – 2-3 against Spurs in May 2019 and 0-1 against Chelsea in October 2019
Liverpool have lost their last two UEFA Champions League games (both against Atlético Madrid last season), despite not having suffered three consecutive defeats in the competition since October-November 2014, under Brendan Rodgers
Since making his UEFA Champions League debut for Liverpool in September 2017, Mohamed Salah has scored 19 goals in the competition for the Reds – the best player for an English club in this period
1 Stekelenburg, 4 Alvarez, 5 Klaiber, 9 Huntelaar, 11 Promes, 18 Ekkelenkamp, 19 Labyad, 23 Traoré, 33 Kotarski
14 Henderson, 18 Minamino, 20 Jota, 23 Shaqiri, 27 Origi, 46 RWilliams, 56 Jaros, 62 Kelleher, 64 Cain, 76 NWilliams
24 Onana; 12 Mazraoui, 3 Schuurs, 21 Martinez, 31 Tagliafico; 6 Klaassen, 17 Blind (c), 8 Gravenberch, 7 Neres; 10 Tadic, 20 Kudus
Adrian starts for the Reds with Fabinho replacing injured duo Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip
13 Adrian; 66 Alexander-Arnold, 3 Fabinho, 12 Gomez, 26 Robertson; 5 Wijnaldum, 17 Jones, 7 Milner (c); 10 Mane, 11 Salah, 9 Firmino
Roberto Firmino has been directly involved in 26 goals in 33 UEFA Champions League appearances for Liverpool (15 goals, 11 assists) – since his debut in the competition in 2017/18, the only other player to score 10 goals and made 10 assists over this period is Kylian Mbappé (13 goals, 13 assists)
Ajax’s Dusan Tadic has played a direct role in 13 goals in 18 UEFA Champions League appearances (six goals and seven assists); the most of all players on the Dutch side since the start of the 2018/19 campaign
This will be Liverpool’s first away game against the Dutch since September 2010, when they drew 0-0 at FC Utrecht in the UEFA Europa League The Reds are unbeaten in their last six trips to the Netherlands. ‘away to face the Dutch teams, keeping a clean sheet in four of them (W3 D3)
Ajax have only won one of their previous six games against English rivals in European competition (D2 L3), without a win in the last three since a 1-0 win over Spurs in the semi-final first leg of the UEFA Champions League in 2018/19
Since losing 1-5 to Ajax in December 1966, Liverpool have gone undefeated in their 13 games against Dutch opponents in European competition (S8 D5)
Ajax and Liverpool will meet for the first time since the 1966/67 European Cup, where the Dutch side knocked out the Reds with a 7-3 cumulative victory in the last 16
Liverpool travel to Dutch capital Amsterdam ahead of their Champions League group stage opener against Ajax
Both teams have a point to prove, with both teams withdrawing from competition last season relatively early compared to the previous season, where Liverpool won the competition and Ajax advanced to the semi-finals. finals
Jurgen Klopp has to come to terms with the fact that he will be without star defender Virgil van Dijk, who suffered an abnormal injury in the Merseyside derby following a horrific challenge from Everton Keeper, Jordan Pickford
Liverpool’s new boy Thiago is also a doubt for the game as he too suffered an injury in the game against Everton this weekend after a bad challenge from Richarlison, which resulted in a red card
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Things were going from bad to worse for Klopp, with defender Joel Matip complaining of an injury after the weekend game leading to a scan for a muscle injury
The Reds will most likely look to defensive midfielder Fabinho to cover missing Van Dijk and Matip, who are more than comfortable to take on the center-back role
Star man Alisson will also miss tonight’s game, it comes a week or two too early, Adrian is most likely to start
Tonight’s host Ajax have to lick their lips looking at Liverpool’s injury list and to make matters worse for the Reds Ajax have a clean checkup
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