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Jurgen Klopp admits he is open to starting Daniel Sturridge and Divock Origi against Sunderland, as the Reds boss juggles his squad to cope with the demands of the fixture list.

The German coach saw his side triumph 1-0 at home to Manchester City, aware that he would be facing Sunderland less than 48 hours afterwards.

The club originally requested for the trip to the Stadium of Light to be played at a later date, which was rejected by the Premier League, with Klopp outspoken about the two games being played in such a short period of time.

After a gruelling victory against Pep Guardiola's side, Klopp may be forced to shuffle his line-up against the Black Cats, with both Sturridge and Origi possible inclusions.

Origi was moved to the bench for the game with City, but came on as a second half substitute, while Sturridge remained on the bench throughout.

Klopp has started the pair together in the past – the EFL Cup win over Tottenham a recent example – but is remaining tight-lipped over possible changes ahead of the game.

“We have played already with Divock and Daniel together, so of course there is an opportunity,” Klopp said. “But actually, even when it's the Sunderland press conference, I don't want to give David Moyes any information about our line-up.

“I will say at this moment we will play the exactly same line-up as tonight.”

After the win at Anfield, Liverpool remain six points behind Chelsea but have the chance to cut the gap to three with a win against Moyes' side, who were beaten 4-1 against Burnley.

Klopp admits he did not have the opportunity to think about Sunderland until the City game was finished, with the fixture list congestion adding further problems.

“We were really concentrated on this game (against City),” he added. “So since the game has finished I worked with the press, I'm not like this that I think about the game after the game you are involved in before the other game, so we start now.

“Usually after a game you ask a lot of questions, because if you get an answer you can rest a player. For sure I will not ask a lot of questions – 'How do you feel?' or whatever – and I will wait for a few informations from the medical department, then we don't really have a real session, that's the next problem.

“With rotation we don't have a session tomorrow, training, but that's pretty short, all the work we can put into the session we will do. Some tactical stuff, we have to do it.

“First of all, it was very important we won – we invested that much, it would be really hard if you got nothing, we got everything. That's great.

“Now we have to go to Sunderland and play our best, it's the same for Sunderland, they played this afternoon a few hours earlier and I said enough about the fixtues.

“Long, long ago we accepted it and now we go there and try to get the next three points.”