Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits he could turn to Bobby Clark and Stefan Bajectic if their injury woes continue.
Klopp detailed his frustration with their spate of injury setbacks ahead of tonight's clash with Manchester United.
He said, "When you have a lot of injuries as a manager, you have to ask yourself what was wrong and it was unlucky, starting with three injuries with players brought here. Caoimhin Kelleher, I hear the Ireland manager didn't like it or was not happy. For us, he got injured while he was with Ireland, so someone there didn't pick it up and when he arrived here [for pre-season] he was still injured. It means you have massive problems with such a short break. So he is out until today.
"Similar with Diogo Jota, he had one pre-season session and was out again, Calvin Ramsay arrived here with problems pretty early. The stress reaction with Curtis Jones, he is not a kid but still pretty young and unlucky. It's really strange, no-one knows where it is coming from but it can happen, and then Oxlade-Chamberlain has a reasonable muscle injury.
"Thiago, Ibou Konate in a tackle, getting unlucky, it was a similar situation with Kostas Tsimikas in training, just a normal challenge, Bobby (Roberto Firmino) was only a little [injury] but he was out [last week], Naby Keita was ill, but if they are not available it is all the same.
"Joel Matip now, that was strange as well. How it happened was he didn't feel anything in training, walked in and said there is something and it is three weeks, four weeks or whatever. It is just strange.
"But we cannot pick it up except for three that happened before we arrived. We have a squad where everyone is needed, we are not a 25-26 man squad, but on the other side it has opened up opportunities.
"I am really happy, I am not sure Stefan Bajectic and Bobby Clark would be that close to the first-team at 17, if everyone was available and now they make big steps in training, but of course we would love to have an extra striker and an extra midfielder available. It's not cool and you need a moment.
"Last week was really horrible, three [more] players were not available and in my mind and if you have a chance to solve it together you do and I cannot wait for the next few games for our people to buy into how they did with pretty much the situation with 10 men.
"We still try it and we never reach anything without fighting. We have reached the biggest things from situations where we were not the best possible, so that is what I like about it. When you can create this it is the best possible for us. We know it will not be easier, but now let's go for it."
