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Jurgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool found themselves in a "crazy situation" where they were able to introduce both Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez as substitutes against Fulham.

The Reds ran out 3-1 winners over the Cottagers thanks to goals from Trent-Alexander Arnold, Ryan Gravenberch and Diogo Jota. With the latter flanked by Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo, it was a much-improved performance from Liverpool in attacking following a below-par couple of weeks.

Salah and Nunez are two of the players to have struggled for form during such a run, with the pair rotated against Fulham as a result as Jota was handed his first start after a long-term knee injury and Gakpo was kept his place after some encouraging recent showings.

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Explaining his decision to make such changes, Jurgen Klopp was delighted to have such options available at his disposal again, having seen his squad plagued by injuries over the past six months.

“We made these changes because we were 100% convinced we had to,” the Reds boss explained. “Not a gamble.

“We play on Wednesday and then we play on Saturday, in London again, which is crazy enough. That’s how it is. We need to make these changes before the players give me the obvious sign, ‘sorry, I’m done’. Really happy with that.

“The squad situation at the moment is as good as it has been in this season. Hopefully it stays like that. If you saw our bench today, that was real quality and experience.

“Yes, have them all back and can mix it up. Can bring on Darwin and Mo today, is a crazy situation. Didn’t work out a little bit because of