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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers to turn to youth in Europa League

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers intends to play youngsters in the Europa League if the team seal qualification by the end of the season.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has revealed that he will give young players a chance in the Europa League should the club seal qualification for the competition.

The Merseyside outfit are still fighting for a Champions League spot as they are currently four points behind fourth-placed Manchester United with three games left to play.

Despite still having a chance of finishing in the top four, the alternative of playing Europa League football is more likely for the Reds, and Rodgers intends to turn to his youth players.

"If you go back to my first year here when we were in the Europa League, it was in that competition that we found some of our young players," the Liverpool Echo quotes Rodgers as saying.

"I gave a lot of them the opportunity, a chance for the likes of Raheem [Sterling] and Andre Wisdom and young Suso, and in the end we finished on the top of that group with 10 points.

"So yeah, it will be an opportunity for young players I'm sure and a competition that we will want to do well in."

This season, Jordan Williams, Jordan Rossiter and Cameron Brannagan have been among the first-team squad.

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