Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain can play in the same team.

Klopp insists they're not competing with each other for the current vacant midfield place.

"They're not competing against each other and hopefully they don't see it like this. It's not like this," he said.

"They offer naturally different things. Naby can play better, obviously, and has played better. But that wasn't the reason the (West Ham) game was like it was.

"Then Oxlade came on, really fresh and with his natural skill, having direction, speed, it's a different player.

"In different situations we need different players and they all are exceptional.

"Until the change, we were more fixed in positions. It wasn't flexible enough or unpredictable enough, we were too easy to defend, we didn't really come through.

"In other situations we were too high on the wings and were hit on counter-attacks."