Jurgen Klopp revealed that he had to make three late changes to his Liverpool starting line up for the 1-1 draw with West Ham.

The Reds boss believes that reshuffle contributed to his side struggling to defend the Hammers' set-pieces at the London Stadium.

Liverpool's preparations were affected by Jordan Henderson (muscle problem) and Gini Wijnaldum (sore knee) being ruled out. James Milner was a major doubt due to illness but with the Reds so heavily depleted he was drafted in at right-back despite having missed training.

“Yesterday night we trained and after the session we had to change three positions. That, of course, is not perfect,” Klopp- said.

“You saw that around the set-pieces with the organisation especially. That's where we struggled a bit.

“I don’t moan about that, it’s just a fact. It’s not an excuse, I said we could have played better tonight, 100%, but it’s a situation that’s not perfect, changing three players.

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“Millie came back but he did not train yesterday. He came to London by himself because he’s infectious. The preparation for the game was far from perfect and we still got a point.

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“It's very important. We had a difficult situation. It's a long season. We've lost one game in the whole season so the team is doing well and we have a tough situation in the moment.”

Henderson and Wijnaldum joined Joe Gomez, Dejan Lovren, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on the lengthy injured list.

“The injuries, I don't know where they come from or the illnesses,” Klopp added.

“Millie was ill - or maybe still is ill - and Virgil (van Dijk) had three, four days where he was out. He lost three or four kilos. That doesn't help as well.

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“You have difficult situations. It's difficult in the moment, but the boys still fight. Could we have played better, even in that situation? 100%. That's what we expect from ourselves.

“But the games are difficult and we have to accept the quality of the opponent and use the weaknesses that they have. We did that in a lot of situations pretty well.”