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Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that four of his young players will be involved against Aston Villa in the Carabao Cup, despite their inclusion in the 23-man squad for the Club World Cup.

The Reds face the unusual prospect of two games in 24 hours later this month when they travel to Villa Park for a quarter-final tie before the semi-final of the Club World Cup kicks off in Qatar on December 18.

Harvey Elliott, Neco Williams, Rhian Brewster and Curtis Jones are all likely to play a part against the Villians before flying out to watch the semi-final game in Doha.

"The situation is, in this moment, we have 16 adult players, so hopefully in two weeks, if everyone is available, we fly with the 16 there and the four boys come later," Klopp said. "It is a completely normal decision.

"They play the game the day before [at Villa], we play on the Wednesday, they come in and watch the game and they are available for the possible final or the other game.

"But if we don't have 16 - because that is the number you need - then we have one, two or three there to replace them because we can do that with injuries. That is the situation."

The Liverpool boss also updated the situation of Joel Matip who continues to struggle with a knee injury that has kept him sidelined for the last 10 games.

The centre-back was left out of the Club World Cup squad, suggesting his lay-off will continue for at least another fortnight.

Matip will once more miss out when the Reds travel to Bournemouth on Saturday afternoon with Dejan Lovren expected to continue his partnership with Virgil van Dijk at centre-back.

Klopp added: "Everything in our life is all under pressure. All the little things have to heal as quickly as possible, but here it is taking the normal amount of time.

"It was not like after four weeks or so that it was already as we wished, so we have to wait another two weeks I would think and then we will see.

"But then he will have been out for six weeks or so, if it is perfect, fine, but he might need to rebuild his physical things as well, which is not too cool, but it is nothing serious.

"It will be fine, but the problem is between now and then, we play 10 times and that is the situation."