Liverpool’s Coutinho remains a doubt – Back injury plus transfer request!

Klopp has a midfield to sort out without having added any new faces to the middle of the park during the transfer window.

Without both, Lallana and Phil, Klopp can use Emre Can and Georginio Wijnaldum openly. Henderson has been cleared to play, which has to be the silver lining in all things going on in their window this season.

Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane are fit and ready to take the field together. Knowing if Mane will be able to finish a full game is unknown. However, the two will start along side Firmino in a front three.

Henderson will slot in his usual quarterback roll, while Wijnaldum and Can will operate as the box-to-box midfielders. Marco Grujic, another player who performed well and has the ability to step in and do the job, can step in if needed.

These factors give the impression, Liverpool goes into this fixture as favourites to come back with all three points.

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This in the same breathe, could be how Liverpool takes the field for the rest of the season, if the exclusion of Coutinho becomes permanent.

Liverpool have as early as tomorrow to prove, they are able to go on without their star player.