Jurgen Klopp's U-turn shows Liverpool boss taking no chances on quadruple hunt

Liverpool want to win it all - badly.

The Reds already have the Carabao Cup in their pockets heading into the final two months of the season and are in with a chance of winning three more competitions : the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup. And it's in that latter which manager Jurgen Klopp has performed a U-turn in a demonstration of how seriously he wants to record an unprecedented quadruple.

Despite second-choice goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher starting the previous two rounds against Shrewsbury Town and Cardiff City, Klopp has declared that No.1 Alisson Becker will retake his place between the posts when Liverpool travel to face Nottingham Forest in the quarter-final on Sunday.

It comes as a setback to the Reds' trusty back-up, who has made a name for himself as a reliable understudy to Brazil international Alisson, playing all but one of their games on the road to Wembley which saw them triumph against Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final after a dramatic penalty shootout just three weeks ago.

Klopp's decision also means that Kelleher is set to be a permanent fixture of the Liverpool bench for the rest of the season, a blow to the Irish stopper's hopes of quickly progressing his career on Merseyside. But with a contract until 2026, it's almost certain that Kelleher, 23, won't have seen the last of the Anfield net.

Alisson's crucial save while the scores were level during the Reds' hard-fought 2-0 win at Arsenal on Wednesday reminded fans - and his boss - of his immense importance as the undisputed first-choice, helping Liverpool close the gap on Premier League leaders Manchester City to just one point.

"It was a sensational save from Alisson," his German manager stated post-match, having watched Martin Odegaard be spectacularly denied by the big Brazilian from close range earlier in the second half. "For me it was a goal, to be honest. With their quality, they often finish situations like that. Ali didn't let it happen."

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Klopp will be hoping Kelleher's response to being dropped in the FA Cup is as positive as Alisson's was ahead of the Carabao Cup final, with the Reds boss revealing: "When we told Ali that Caoimhin will play, Ali said okay, that's good, if we win it then we can put his head on the famous wall in the goalkeeper area at the AXA where all the keepers who won trophies with Liverpool are on."

Team spirit is clearly not lacking at Anfield, so could they really do the quadruple, going one better than Manchester United 's historic treble in 1999? "No team in the history of English football ever won the quadruple because it's really difficult," Klopp admitted following the final.

"We are not even close to thinking about crazy stuff like that. We have won the Carabao Cup, we are behind Man City in the league and now we have Norwich in the FA Cup after 120 minutes on Sunday. Even City with all their quality did not win it. The reality is [that] to win something you have to be focused on the next step and the one after that - that's what we do.

"I don't see it as a compliment [if people think they can] but it's better people think we can do good things rather than be useless. I don't need this kind of compliment - we are close to nothing at the moment. We face a lot of good teams between now and the end of May. The smallest problem I have right now is thinking they [players] could fly."