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Jurgen Klopp has revealed the impact of Liverpool's competition for places as he ponders ringing the changes for the Champions League.

The Reds begin the defence of their European crown with a Group E opener at Napoli on Tuesday night.

The game is the second of seven in 21 days for Liverpool, a sequence they began with a 3-1 home Premier League win against Newcastle United on Saturday that opened up a five-point lead in the early table.

Reds skipper Jordan Henderson is expected to start in the San Paolo having been an unused substitute at the weekend, while Divock Origi is out and Andy Robertson will have a late fitness test.

And Klopp said: “The competition in this team is really big. If the line-up is not performing, they (the other players) are really there.

“As an example, Shaq (Xherdan Shaqiri) is brought in in that position where he has been training for a couple of weeks now.

"He is so creative. He is a real option.

“If you have one good game and another good game the dynamic changes.

“Dejan Lovren is not in the squad and I have no explanation for that other than two centre-halves on the bench is probably not necessary.

“Naby Keita is coming, everyone knows that. When Ox played really well at Southampton, for the all others it was ‘ooh’ - you should see training. They all want to make sure, 'I am ready, you can use me'.

“This is a really big club with competition between friends. It is not 'I have to kill him to play', it is really for the team. That is what the boys did so far and as long as we have that we will go for everything.”