Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has explained why Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah were not in the squad for Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final win over Nottingham Forest.
Salah was still recovering from a foot injury, while Mane was rested due to Senegal's World Cup third-round qualification tie against Egypt.
Klopp said of Salah and Mane after the game: "Mo felt the foot again from the Brighton game. [It's] not massive, but it was clear that you would not be in a game like this if you have a little bit of pain here, or there.
"There is no chance. In that moment it was clear that we will not use Sadio for the game because the game is too big in Africa.
"I don't want to be twice the one who is doing things like that, which could be misunderstood. The others were all unavailable. Mo was unavailable, only Sadio we left out."
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