Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp explained not starting Mohamed Salah for their 7-0 win at Crystal Palace.
Salah eventually came off the bench to score twice late on.
Klopp said, "It's just the first time for a while that we have the opportunity to do something like this. We played Sunday-Wednesday, so we needed fresh legs today. So Joel could come in, Naby could come in and then we had to think about how we can deal with that in the first line and Mo played the last four games, so a massively intense period.
"So it was clear it will be him. Then usually you would expect in a game like this against Crystal Palace – the recent results between us and them were always pretty tight – so bringing him in the last half an hour, I thought it's a good idea. We did that, by the way, but it was not exactly the scenario we would have expected, of course. That's it."
