Liverpool midfielder Thiago Alcantara’s damage is “not cool” supervisor Juergen Klopp stated on Friday, after the Spaniard was dominated out of motion having solely simply returned to the primary crew.
The 32-year-old had been out since April with a hip difficulty, and solely got here on as a late substitute in its 3-1 defeat to Arsenal on Sunday after he had “looked fantastic in training”.
He is sidelined once more, nevertheless, after struggling what Klopp referred to as a muscle damage and might be absent for its Premier League recreation towards relegation-threatened Burnley on Saturday together with the injured Mohamed Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai.
Conor Bradley continues to be together with his household following the dying of his father.
“The situation with Thiago is obviously not cool,” Klopp advised reporters. “We don’t know the extent yet. It’s not good news for him or the club, on top of losing the game.
“It’s not a big, big injury, definitely not, but it’s something nobody needed.”
Bradley’s father Joe died three days after the 20-year-old scored his first Premier League aim and had two assists in an electrical efficiency in Liverpool’s 4-1 thrashing of Chelsea on Jan. 31.
“The boy gets as long as he needs with his family,” Klopp stated. “I think from next week on he will be back in training, but we have to see, if he doesn’t feel ready for that, then that’s fine as well.
“There’s absolutely no rush from us. The only thing we want to do is to support him as much as we can.”
Bradley had been good after changing injured Trent Alexander-Arnold in Liverpool’s again line, serving to them keep prime of the desk regardless of accidents to a number of key gamers.
Klopp’s crew stay prime on 51 factors after 23 video games regardless of loss to Arsenal. Manchester City, who’ve 49 factors and a recreation in hand, can go above Liverpool in Saturday’s early recreation towards Everton.
Salah, the league’s joint prime scorer with City’s Erling Haaland, is recovering from a hamstring damage sustained whereas enjoying for Egypt within the Africa Cup of Nations.
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“He’s going in the right direction and we hope that he will be part of training next week but we will see,” Klopp stated. “He’s going through his paces now but it’s positive. It will be next week or the week after.”
Szoboszlai stays out after aggravating a hamstring damage.
“He is running outside in the winter rain but he’s not ready for tomorrow,” Klopp stated. “We have to see with tendons, the players are pain-free pretty quickly, but it’s not good he’s got it again.”
The Arsenal loss was Liverpool’s first in 16 league video games. Asked if it felt like a setback, Klopp stated: “We lost a game and it felt like that, definitely … but not because the situation with the table, just because we lost the game and we didn’t play a particularly good game.”
“A few days before, we played in parts our best game of the season, a complete performance against Chelsea. Top class.
“It’s always a challenge, we don’t take these things lightly and we have to show a reaction.”
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com