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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot admitted the challenge of managing the minutes of his overworked squad has kept him awake at night.For the last five matches he has only been able to name a name a maximum of four senior players on the bench as he deals with a quartet of long-term injuries have started.Although he has midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai back from suspension he has lost Wataru Endo most likely for the rest of the season after a serious ankle injury in Wednesday’s Premier League win at Sunderland.

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00:00How does it all impact your thinking in terms of managing minutes?
00:03Because you go in Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, but then of course you do have eight days
00:07before you then face Nottingham Forest in the Premier League.
00:09Yeah, not the first time this season that we have to play three games in seven days.
00:14And I said many times it's part of being a top club, a big club that you play a lot
00:19of games.
00:20But three in eight is already better and some teams are three in nine.
00:24And then it also depends, of course, in the FA Cup what draw you have.
00:28And we play a very strong Brighton team because I think there are a lot of comparisons
00:33between Brighton and us.
00:35They absolutely don't deserve to be in the position they're in at the moment.
00:39They play so much better than the league table shows.
00:42Almost every game they're competitive and deserve more than they get.
00:47So, yeah, it's another challenge and another...
00:52I just said to Tony yesterday evening, it took me a long time before I could fall into sleep,
00:59because I was constantly considering what options I have for the line-up and what I should do.
01:04Because indeed, do you play the same players again or the others?
01:08Is this a moment for the others, but which others, in which position?
01:13So, I need another 24 hours to decide on the line-up.
01:17That's...
01:17That's right.
01:17That's right.
01:17I'll take it then.
01:18I'll take it then...
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