Seven successive victories that progress is already guaranteed for leaders of the Champions League.
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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has opted to take a second-string squad to face PSV Eindhoven and leave the likes of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alisson Becker at home.
Seven consecutive victories mean that progress is already received because the leaders of the Champions League are guaranteed to end the decrease that the moment and will claim the first position with a point in the Netherlands.
On Saturday to Bournemouth of high flight is the priority, with a six -point advantage in the most sensible of the Premier League to make it bigger or protect, and Slot has made the decision to rest nine of the players who began in the victory 4 -1 on Ipswich the weekend for the eighth game of a nine -day race in 27 days.
Only Andy Robertson and former PSV striker Cody Gakpo are retained from the initial programme on Saturday, which the other top players left on Merseyside are Ibrahima Konate, Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister and Luis Diez.
It means academy players Jayden Danns and Trey Nyoni, both of whom have made first-team appearances this season, Kieran Morrison, Isaac Mabaya, Trent Kone-Doherty, Amara Nallo, James Norris and James McConnell have all travelled.
“I wouldn’t say I’m scared. It took me while to understand this new format but I am 100 per cent sure it doesn’t matter at all if we end up one or two; the result has no importance,” Slot explained.
“We play PSV and then Bournemouth and then Tottenham (in the semifinal leg of the Carabao Cup).
“Paints namely on PSV and Bournemouth and that is exceptional, because I would only see PSV, but I also see Bournemouth.
“Everyone I left can play tomorrow, but if you watch our season almost every of them, 4 or five weeks, we have given them a break if there is a time to give them freshness. “
Defensor Joe Gómez returned on Tuesday after lacking seven games with an injury to the hamstrings, but he also stayed in the Merseyside to continue his recovery.
Midfielder Curtis Jones, who missed Saturday’s win over Ipswich with a groin problem, and striker Diogo Jota, who has been out for a fortnight with a muscle injury, have yet to rejoin the squad.
Liverpool Squad to Face PSV: Endo, Núñez, Chiesa, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Robertson, Kone-Doherty, Mabaya, McConnell, Jaros, Kelleher, Nallo, Morrison, Danns, Norris, Quansah, Morton, Bradley, Davies, Nyoni.
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