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21st October 2020
10:08am BST

Speaking ahead of Liverpool's Champions League opener away to Ajax, Klopp defended the decision not to bring in an extra defender, appearing to aim a dig at Carragher in the process.
"We went into the season with three centre-backs plus Fabinho as cover and some youngsters," Klopp told reporters. "It's hard to have four world-class centre-halves. If anyone wants to tell us we made a mistake, I think Carragher mentioned already. There are a few reasons why they [pundits] don't do this job."Much like Roy Keane, earlier this season in the Sky Sports studio, Carragher was not letting those comments go without defending himself. As he sought to clarify his position, fellow Sky pundit Gary Neville got involved: https://twitter.com/GNev2/status/1318658105991979015 To which Carragher fired back a broadside about what he perceives as Neville's reluctance to criticise Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and instead focus on the Manchester United board: https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1318667187075371014 We think Carragher won that round, hands down. Ahead of the game in Amsterdam, Georginio Wijnaldum admitted Van Dijk's injury had unsettled his Liverpool teammates so much that some had experienced trouble sleeping in the wake of the game at Goodison Park. "This was different than normal," Wijnaldum is quoted as saying by The Mirror. "The way it happened was really hard for us, and everyone still has a really bad feeling about it. None of the players slept. It's a hard one to take and it was a hard one for the team." Asked how Van Dijk's absence might impact Liverpool's aspirations of winning a second successive Premier League title, Wijnaldum added: "Virgil is a really important player in our team - he has showed that since he came in. He is a leader. It's up to us to show that we can still put in good performances without Virgil. We have to."
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