Jurgen Klopp fears Liverpool star faces months out with critical knee harm
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp fears Joel Matip may very well be out for months after struggling what’s believed to be a critical knee harm.
The Kop defender, who’s within the remaining yr of his contract, underwent a scan yesterday at lunchtime to find out the extent of the harm he suffered within the second half towards Fulham on Sunday.
Matip, 32, will clearly miss tonight’s conflict with Sheffield United at Bramall Lane because the membership wait to search out out the complete size of time the Cameroon worldwide is absent for.
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Klopp mentioned: “When the doctor comes in and says ‘it doesn’t look great’ [you worry] but we have to wait for the scans and the scan isn’t here yet. So you can imagine it doesn’t look great. It is never good news [when the doc says that straight away].
“I’ve never had that in all my years where someone says ‘oh my God, it’s [the initial diagnosis on an injury] completely wrong, there’s nothing wrong, he can play tomorrow’. It doesn’t happen.”
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The Reds taken on the Blades on Wednesday as they journey to Sheffield getting ready to face Chris Wilder’s facet as an alternative of Paul Heckingbottom. And Klopp joked he’s needed to bin all his pre-match evaluation due to the change of supervisor.
“First thing is we can probably bin our analysis,” he mentioned. “I used to be sitting yesterday within the workplace and any person advised me it’d occur however I watched it anyway. We will see.
“We need to give attention to ourselves. I don’t assume he’ll now change an excessive amount of. What can he change in that quick interval? We don’t need to assume an excessive amount of about it. We actually ought to simply put together for a soccer sport. We play groups with 5 on the again, 5-3-2 and 5-4-1, fairly continuously, to be trustworthy.
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“We have to make sure we give them a proper job to think about. I understand it’s always like that – a new manager coming in and now we start getting confused; we shouldn’t.
“Actually, we can play in different ways and as much I am happy for Chris that he’s back in a job there at his club, if he thinks about us then it must be, ‘Oh my God, they come from everywhere.’ That’s pretty much the thing, but the game will be played tomorrow, not today in the press conference.”
Liverpool will nonetheless be red-hot favourites to maintain their title bid on observe with one other win however Klopp isn’t searching for a load of targets as 1-0 will do.
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He added: “I simply need to win the soccer sport. And with all these circumstances it’s tough. The outcomes of different groups can be mentioned afterwards within the boards not in our rooms. We need to win the sport and if that’s 1-0 then I’m nice with that.
“But, first and foremost, I want to play a really good football game with the boys. We have to make steps, we have to improve. That is what I am concerned about. And if we do that we will get the result we want.”
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