Liverpool travel to London on Friday night in order to take on Arsenal at the Emirates and Jurgen Klopp has some serious injury headaches before the high profile encounter.
While speaking to the media at the pre-match press conference, Jurgen Klopp confirmed that he will be without the services of three of his regular first-team starters but one key player is back in contention to face Arsenal at the Emirates.
Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Joel Matip is unavailable for selection even though he has fully recovered from a muscle injury but the Reds’ manager claimed that it will be too early to throw him into a game. Daniel Sturridge too is suffering from a tight hamstring and will be unavailable for selection when Liverpool travel to North London.
Alberto Moreno is another absentee as the left-back has not yet recovered from his ankle injury. But a bit of positive news for the German manager is that midfielder Adam Lallana is fully fit and available for selection for the Friday night clash.
Jurgen Klopp told Liverpool’s official website:
“Joel Matip was back in training yesterday. How it is always now we have these little reactions on the last game so we need to wait a little bit, we have different players but in this moment it looks like apart from Daniel Sturridge, who is a little bit ill, or was, but he could be back, I’m not sure and the long-term [injuries].
“But Joel Matip, it’s positive. I’m not sure if he’s ready for Arsenal, but [will be] for the games coming up then, I’m pretty sure. That’s it, I think.”
“It was aggressive! Was it 10 seconds until he had a yellow card or so?! He’s back and that’s good but he needs to collect minutes now, we will see how we manage that. He’s not ready for three games, 90 minutes in a row, but he’s ready to help us in specific moments and hopefully, we can build up his match fitness step by step because that’s the only thing he’s missing now.
“But even in the few minutes when he was on the pitch, everybody could see what a player he is and yeah, it’s very good news for all of us that he is back.”
“Unfortunately he [Moreno] is still not even on the pitch so that could still take a few weeks.”
