With Danny Ings out for the season and Christian Benteke and Roberto Firmino still returning from injury, the German remained in a positive frame of mind in his pre-match press conference.
“We have Origi – do you know him?” he said.
“I learned first, you do not think about the players who are not available at this moment because there is no chance to get lucky if you do this all of the time.
“In the case of Benteke and Firmino, they are back on the pitch but not team training. I hope next week they will be in normal team training.
“Firmino could play in the striker position but we have to see if he should. In this moment, for the next game, we have Daniel for the position and we have Origi.
“Two strikers, I don’t need more. When you start if you have more it’s perfect. But you have to think how you can react. When Christian is fit then he is an option, for sure but at this moment he isn’t.”
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