With Andy Robertson out for three months because of a dislocated shoulder, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp is wary of overloading his understudy Kostas Tsimikas. Ahead of last weekend’s Merseyside derby, Klopp had already stressed that Tsimikas couldn’t play ‘all the games’ in the absence of the Scotsman.
The Reds boss had already used the Europa League group stages as an opportunity to blood young players, handing Ben Doak a full debut in the opener against LASK before giving Jarell Quansah his first start in European competition on matchday two against Union SG. On Thursday, it was the turn of Luke Chambers, an academy graduate presented with an opening by Robertson’s injury after 13 years at the club.
found out I was playing] yesterday [Wednesday] in training,” Chambers told liverpoolfc.com. “I went home and it didn’t really sink in at first, then this morning it kind of came to a bit of reality.”
