Liverpool’s ultimate pre-season pleasant, on Sunday night time towards Strasbourg, noticed Naby Keita and Curtis Jones absent.
The 2 midfielders each got here on late within the Neighborhood Defend towards Man Metropolis 24 hours earlier, Keita performed the ultimate 5 minutes and Jones got here on within the fifth minute of stoppage time.
Due to this fact, they have been each anticipated to line up for the pleasant at Anfield on Sunday – as did James Milner and Harvey Elliott, who every performed the ultimate 20 minutes towards Metropolis.
Nonetheless, the duo have been surprisingly absent from the teamsheet towards the French opponents, and Klopp has defined why.
The boss has stated that Keita is ailing, whereas Jones has some form of knock.
“Naby is ailing and Curtis felt a bit of bit and we couldn’t take any dangers,” Klopp stated post-match.
“Abruptly the group was actually younger and we play [against] a very robust Strasbourg facet.”
The duo’s absence was added to by Ibrahima Konate being pressured off within the second half, however Klopp hopes it’s nothing important.
“We don’t know precisely but on Ibou,” he stated. “But it surely doesn’t look too regarding, so I hope we caught it in the fitting second.”
Keita, Jones and Konate added to these already sidelined; Kostas Tsimikas, Diogo Jota, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Calvin Ramsey, Alisson, Caoimhin Kelleher and Kaide Gordon.
Klopp has even dominated Keita out of subsequent week’s opening Premier League sport towards Fulham.
On Jones, the boss says “we have now to see” and that his damage was not an impression damage, making it unknown what the difficulty is.
“He felt it at this time and he needed to play desperately, however then the medical division stated no and that we wanted to make additional checks. We’ll do this tomorrow after which we are going to know extra.”
