I think there was a tad of Darwinian thinking in Klopp's approach last night.As things now stand, with our injuries and fixture list, there are two big league games coming up, then there's the second leg of a semi that, whilst we're in a good position, we're not in a position that we can afford to do anything but field our strongest side, with Wembley being in touching distance. So the third round of the FA Cup - well, had we put out a full strength side on that quagmire, got another three hamstrings/groin strains/tendon injuries; got a ****e away draw against another Prem side in the next round; forced to field an even more scratch team against Arse, Uniturd and Stoke and our season is effectively over.
Klopp didn't have much choice but to do what he did, though not putting on Lucas and/or Lallana may have been a touch 'Look at the squad' to FSG. God knows the gross spend since they took over in 2010, but this is the depth of the squad? Anyway, it served its purpose - some players, like Smith, showed they can step up now. Others, like Illori and Oji, showed they're worth working on. One or two, for all all their efforts, showed they probably won't cut it at this level, and perhaps we may get offers for them? BUT, what was good was that no-one (apart from one or two senior players) hid away. Jurgen has got to pleased with that.