Arne Slot says it is always a difficult decision not to start players like Harvey Elliott and Wataru Endo, whose chances have been limited for Liverpool FC this season.
"It's always a difficult decision not to start Harvey, not to start Wata [Endo], not to start all the other ones I don't play," Slot said in his press conference yesterday.
"But if someone comes in [for] five minutes, touches his first ball and scores a goal and then changes your whole idea about the line-ups you made before, that would be a bit weird as well.
"Harvey had a good impact on the game. That's why he got 45 minutes today as well, because he did so well in Paris. But there is also a reason why I play so many times the other ones and all the time they deserved that trust.
"Today, if I could do it one more time over I would have started differently than I started today, but you don't know this in advance."