Here are the Liverpool morning headlines for Sunday, August 30.
Alexander-Arnold and Henderson set to return
Liverpool have received a huge double injury boost ahead of the new Premier League season, with Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jordan Henderson due to return to training at Melwood on Sunday.
The Reds’ right-back was part of the trip to Austria earlier this month but was not in the match-day squad for Liverpool’s Community Shield clash on Saturday.
Those players who missed the defeat at Wembley will train at Melwood on Sunday, with captain Henderson also likely to be part of that contingent.
He has been absent since a season-ending knee injury on July 8, but still travelled to Austria to work on solo sessions with the Liverpool coaches.
Klopp: “I will take the blame for Brewster decision”
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he should take the blame for the decision to bring on Rhian Brewster solely for the Community Shield penalty shootout defeat against Arsenal on Saturday.
And he insists that the young striker’s penalty miss will be a learning curve.
Brewster, who excelled last season on loan at Championship side Swansea City, was substituted on in the closing stages of the game with the intention of taking one of the five penalties, but struck his effort against the top of the crossbar.
Klopp said: “We constantly have to learn and prove that we can deal with defeats. We lost today in the competition and Rhian was part of that.
“So, if he would have scored and someone else missed, it’s the same.
“I get it, it is different when you are the one [who missed] and I have been in the same situation as a player and it is not nice.
“It is just part of the deal.”
Liverpool myth and Fabinho struggles exposed
The ECHO has looked at the key talking points after the Reds’ penalty shootout loss to Arsenal in the Community Shield.
Klopp’s team went into the game with as many as six first-team players absent through injury - referring to one of the fallacies of last season that Liverpool breezed to the title by having all the luck on their side with regards to injury set-backs.
The analysis also looked at how Liverpool were more fluid when Brazilian midfielder Fabinho is in his rightful role and that a big positive of Saturday’s defeat was the performance of substitute Takumi Minamino, who came off the bench at around the hour mark.
