The games continue to come thick and fast for a heavily injury-hit Liverpool side.

Saturday afternoon sees the Reds travel to Nottingham Forest looking to build out their lead atop the Premier League, having won the Carabao Cup and reached the FA Cup quarter-finals in the past week.

Jurgen Klopp has been able to call upon a number of youth players to fill out his desperately depleted squad in that time with a hefty 14 players absent due to injury and fitness issues for the midweek win over Southampton.

More players may be added for the trip to the City Ground. Klopp described the prospects of Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah, and Dominik Szoboszlai playing last time out as “touch and go,” but all three ended up missing out.

Illness kept Andrew Robertson off the field as well.

With Ryan Gravenberch out due to an ankle injury sustained against Chelsea and Wataru Endo seriously doubtful after what Klopp described as a “proper knock” in the same game, it seems that this quintet is the closest to a Liverpool comeback.

But, given the number of games remaining and the rising success of young players like Lewis Koumas and Jayden Danns, the Reds might still choose to introduce them from the bench or even later.

During his pre-match press conference on Friday, Klopp will give supporters an update on the team.

One of the selection choices to take into account is whether to keep Joe Gomez in the midfield anchor position, which he performed admirably in the victory over Southampton. James McConnell and Bobby Clark, two teenagers, are putting up a compelling argument for Liverpool to keep them involved in a particularly thin area of the field.

Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate shared the FA Cup match at 45 minutes apiece, and they should