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Klopp confident Liverpool teenager Alexander-Arnold can handle Zaha

Jurgen Klopp believes Trent Alexander-Arnold will be able to handle the "exceptional" Wilfried Zaha when Liverpool play Crystal Palace on Monday night.

Zaha ran the 19-year-old ragged when the two teams last met in March. Palace were up 1-0 at half-time before Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane rescued the win for Liverpool.

But Klopp has no plans of leaving Alexander-Arnold out of the starting line-up at Selhurst Park.

"Zaha is exceptional, that's true. If you leave any full-back alone, nobody's able to defend Zaha, but we will not do that," Klopp said.

"Hopefully we have a lot of big games and in the Premier League already, I cannot see bad wingers.

"Probably when we play Manchester United, Jose Mourinho will think it's a good idea to bring (Marcus) Rashford on that wing because he played pretty well that day.

"It's all part of development. No problem with that. We will not change anything because of an old story last year.

"Since then, Trent has improved not only one step but I don't know how many steps. That doesn't mean from now on he will only have perfect performances, but it's all part of his development.

"We work on that, we talk the right things about that, but we will not remind him about whatever happened that day."

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