It's a good job protecting these players is working then. Eh?
We don't know why Coutinho didn't play, or Firmino. Any other manager would have been crucifed for resting big name players for one of the biggest games of the season. In fact, they were.
We rested players to protect them for the latter part of the season and we dropped points. It's exactly the same thing Rafa used to be criticised for, because he'd wrap players in cotton wool, with one eye on the latter half of the season and we'd lose points in the process. So it was a fruitless exercise. Wood/trees.
I tell you what, if you're want to be a hindsight smart arse, we can all play that game. Maybe Salah and Coutinho shouldn't have needlessly played the full 90 minutes in a game that was well won against Spartak.
It's a selective point. You think Klopp is right in resting these players, yet you hope Salah is ok to start tomorrow, after a potential hamstring issue? So you're happy to risk him, yet you think Klopp was right to rotate on Saturday? Could you contradict yourself any more? If Salah has a genuine injury he shouldn't play, end of, but Klopp needs to sort out his rotation policy and rest them at the right times. One astoundingly obvious and missed opportunity being when we were 7-0 up last week.