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Jurgen Klopp is not unfamiliar with footballing psychology.

He has already tried it at Anfield.

“Before you are tired, you think you are tired. If you don’t think you are tired, it is easy,” he said just two weeks ago.

But that one WAS easy.

All Klopp had to do was convince his players that a Europa League match and a 2,000 mile plane journey, two days before the visit of a fully rested Crystal Palace, was not significant.

Much trickier is convincing Daniel Sturridge that he can play through a pain barrier when required and enjoy the kind of consistency of appearance he last achieved in 2013/14.

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Sturridge made 33 appearances that season. He scored 24 goals. It is no coincidence that Liverpool nearly won the league.

Just five months later, after sustaining the latest in a long list of injuries, he declared: “Maybe it’s my body type, maybe it’s hereditary. Both my uncles had injuries, and my dad had them as well. Maybe it’s the Caribbean vibes, maybe I have speed but maybe it makes you more vulnerable because of the fast twitch muscles and the speed in which you’re moving. I am vulnerable to muscle injuries.”

Sturridge appears to believe he is injury prone.

And he does have good reason.

A thigh problem has been his most common complaint – nine at the last count during his Liverpool career alone.

But the 25-year-old has also injured his calf, hamstring, ankle and most recently hip. As Thomas McMahon memorably quipped on This Is Anfield, “All he needs is a groin and knee injury and he’s officially won Fabio Aurelio bingo.”

But the biggest problem seems to be upstairs.

Injuries have become a self fulfilling prophecy for Sturridge.

If you think you’re tired, you will become tired.

If you think you’re going to get injured, you will. Every twinge becomes a strain, every cramp becomes a tear.

Daniel Sturridge is fully fit and back in training. For now.

Jurgen Klopp may have to get into his player’s head before he can cure his body long term.

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