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“He is a very important player for us and hopefully will be that for a long, long time.”

With Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all sidelined by injury, the German deployed Jordan Henderson and Fabinho as makeshift centre-backs.



But Klopp has outlined why he resisted the temptation to move the pair infield during his attempts to ease the burden felt at the heart of his backline.



“Another thing which is pretty stable for us is the way our full-backs play and perform.



“That’s probably the reason why I didn’t do it.” The Liverpool manager also spoke of his pride that Mohamed Salah is on course to claim his third Premier League Golden Boot within four seasons.

That’s one thing we had to constantly.

The thing is that losing the centre-halves you usually play with changes the complete structure of the game.