David James reveals his fear for Liverpool if Jurgen Klopp takes this risk

FORMER England keeper David James fears for Liverpool if Jurgen Klopp picks another youthful team for their fourth-round FA Cup tie with West Ham tomorrow.

 

David James fears for Liverpool ahead of facing West Ham in the FA Cup

 

James played 277 games for Liverpool between 1992 and 1999 and made a further 102 appearances for the Hammers between 2001 and 2004 during his 18 years playing in the Premier League.
Klopp made 11 changes in the last round at Exeter and the Reds required a replay to see off their League Two opponents.
West Ham sit once place above Liverpool in sixth in the Premier League table and James, who’s been impressed with the Hammers under Slaven Bilic this season, believes that Klopp cannot afford to take a similar risk against Premier League opponents. 

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“I’ve been very impressed by them [West Ham] this season,” James wrote in the Liverpool Echo. “I think Slaven Bilic has done a marvellous job.
“They’re sitting just outside the European places – above Liverpool – and they’ll be looking at their fixtures to come and thinking ‘why can’t we put ourselves in the mix for the top four?’
“What Jurgen did at Exeter in the last round was select a team that, barring a couple of exceptions, pretty much knew each other and had played together, albeit at youth level. He repeated that at Anfield, and I think you saw that the understanding and confidence had grown.

“I’m not sure if he will go quite so young in his selection against West Ham, because this is a Premier League opponent that can easily put an inexperienced team out of the competition. It would be a big risk, in a competition you certainly have a chance of winning.

“But a few of those young players did themselves no harm in the two games against Exeter, let me tell you.”

James won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 and he was a runner-up with Liverpool in 1996, when the Reds lost to Manchester United at Wembley.