The first game without Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, finished 0-0 for Liverpool. The Shrewsbury game in the FA Cup cannot be counted, as those two would probably be rested anyway in a match against a third-tear football team, but their absence was evident against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup semi-final. Even with a man down from the 24th minute (Xhaka again got the red card), the Gunners managed to survive in Liverpool and now the Reds boss had to answer the Mane/Salah questions, again.Ten-men Arsenal hold on to a goalless draw at tumultuous AnfieldOf course, nothing would have happened if only Takumi Minamino didn’t miss a sitter, which also brought up the question of Liverpool’s reserve players, and their capability to replace Mane and Salah when needed. And the German tactician was fed up with questions about his African stars.“Tell me one team who wouldn’t miss Sadio Mane and Mo Salah and Naby Keita! Of course we miss them. We have known that already for years that it could happen. So, could we have been better prepared for it? I don’t think so because all the things we did in the past were because we had the team we had, so that’s the situation. What I don’t like too much is when journalists ask me questions about what our fans worry about, I don’t understand it. Are you that close with our supporters that you can ask these questions and worry about contract situations and stuff like this? That has nothing to do with the game tonight, absolutely nothing. Tonight we had a football problem and this team which we lined up tonight can play or sort that football problem, definitely” said clearly annoyed Klopp.(1.35) LIVERPOOL (5.30) BRENTFORD (10.0)The German tactician also thought that all the talk about Arsenal’s good result at Enfield also doesn’t mean that the Gunners will automatically advance to the finals, as was only the first leg.“This is a cup competition, it is a two-leg semi-final, it is half-time, it is 0-0 and even when probably Arsenal feels in a better position at the moment we don’t feel this tie is over for us so we will give it another proper try next Thursday. I have no idea what Arsenal will do when we face them, we will see that. It is not in my mind in the moment – my mind is already Brentford, so from Monday on you can ask me these kinds of things about what we will do there” said Klopp.
