Not a firm position this term for LFC.
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00:00 Will, starting with Liverpool, just look at their centre-back situation.
00:04 Obviously, they've chopped and changed a few times this season.
00:06 What's the latest you can tell us and who do you expect to play in the next few games in that position?
00:13 Yeah, I think at the start of the season, everyone was looking at him thinking,
00:16 "Well, it's going to be Virgil van Dijk, the first choice."
00:18 And Eupen McKenna, I'd say, would be his partner for the majority of games,
00:24 but it hasn't turned out that way.
00:25 And McKenna, I'd say, maybe his form at the start of the season wasn't the best
00:29 and obviously after the Merseyside derby,
00:31 where he should have been sent off for two bookable offences
00:36 but was very lucky to escape a second yellow card,
00:39 maybe he's come under the microscope a little bit.
00:42 And Jürgen Klopp, I can't say he's had injuries in the past,
00:46 and he's had niggling injuries, maybe injuries that have gone on a little bit too long,
00:50 and that's the reason why Joel Matip's played for a few games this season in the Premier League.
00:55 And it was actually a surprise not to see Matip line up against Everton in the derby
00:59 because he hadn't gone away on international duty
01:01 and can I say played two games for France.
01:03 So to play two games and come back and play the half 12 game for Liverpool,
01:08 that was a little bit of a surprise
01:09 and maybe that was a reason why his performance was jazzed, to say the least.
01:15 Now, Liverpool, as we speak, they played Toulouse in the Europa League,
01:21 probably going to see youngster Gerald Kwanzaa play,
01:24 it depends who lines up with him.
01:25 And then the Forest game, it's a 50/50 chance between Matip and Canarsie for me.
01:32 And then you've even got Joe Gomez in the mix,
01:34 who when he played centre-half and he's Aston Villa when Van Dijk was absent with suspension
01:40 and Canarsie was injured, he has a really good game,
01:43 he's performed really well at right back this season.
01:45 So Jürgen Klopp's got some options, he's got some decisions to make.
01:50 I mean, it's good for Liverpool, but ideally you want your centre-half to be nailed down,
01:55 so every week you know who's going to be playing for the most part
01:58 and when Liverpool play in these Europa League and Carabao Cup games,
02:01 then they can rotate it.
02:03 So maybe that doesn't rest quite easy on the minds,
02:07 but I'm sure Jürgen Klopp, after this run of fixtures
02:11 and once these three international breaks are over,
02:16 then you might have a little bit of a better idea
02:18 of who is Virgil van Dijk's main parter for the remainder of the campaign.