Jurgen Klopp to give clue towards season mindset with lineup vs Wolves

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Jurgen Klopp can give everyone a club as to Liverpool’s mindset with his lineup against Wolves. The boss has a luxury he hasn’t had for a while.

Liverpool face Wolves today and eyes should certainly be on how Jurgen Klopp selects his lineup.

As we discussed recently, Klopp has a luxury going into this one. His players have had five days of rest ahead of it, while the midweek clash against Midtjylland is a dead-rubber.

That means Klopp can treat this one as a ‘normal’ game. Fresh players, with no need to rest for a quickfire fixture.

So with little else to consider but how to beat Wolves, we should get an idea of how Klopp wants to go about this season.

Plans

Liverpool can’t play exactly how they did last year – they may not even want to. Long-term injuries to Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez mean the Reds don’t have a solid defence to rely on, like they did last year.

The easiest solution, then, is to focus on attack. If Liverpool can’t win by stopping other teams, they’ll try and win by battering other teams.

And so we might see Klopp suggest an all-out attack approach against Wolves. If he plays all four of his star forward – Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota – then we’ll know that is indeed the plan.

Otherwise, he may take a more cautious approach. We could see an attempt to cover a weaker defence with a hard-working midfield and a little less flair. Perhaps Fabinho moving back into midfield to keep things solid.

We just don’t know what the gameplan is, yet. Klopp has had to consider so many other things game to game that, largely, the ‘plan’ has been to get 11 men on the field in roughly natural positions.

Sunday, however, will be different. Klopp doesn’t need to worry so much about keeping players fresh and that freedom should clue us into his thinking.