Virgil van Dijk has insisted Liverpool’s players can cope with manager Jurgen Klopp’s ruthless squad rotation, admitting the only alternative would be to leave the club.

Klopp has made a number of changes throughout Liverpool’s unbeaten start to the season, which, even though the winning run came to an end, was extended to seven Premier League games with a 1-1 draw at Chelsea.

Daniel Sturridge underlined the strength in depth Klopp now has by scoring a spectacular late equaliser, which cancelled out Eden Hazard’s opener, against his former club.

The striker had been sent on in place of James Milner after Klopp had made two other brave changes by replacing captain Jordan Henderson with Naby Keita and sending on Xherdan Shaqiri to take over from last season’s star Mohamed Salah.

Shaqiri had, the previous week, been taken off at half-time after helping Liverpool into a 3-0 lead against Southampton.