Injuring another stopper is the last thing we need, Klopp said

The curse of Liverpool with injured stoppers does not end this season. After the head of defense Virgil van Dijk was injured two weeks ago, followed by Joel Matip, the Brazilian defensive universal Fabinho limped off the field in the 30th minute of Tuesday’s Champions League match with Midtjyland (2: 0).

The reigning English champion and winner of the Champions League from 2019 in the line-up are left with only English representative Joe Gomez and nineteen-year-old Rhys Williams, who replaced Fabinha. At the same time, the English national team under the age of 21 has not played a minute in the league.

“Injuring another stopper is the last thing we needed. Fabinho stretched his back thigh muscle. He said he could continue to play, but he couldn’t make any sprints, which wouldn’t help his condition or us. After MRI, we’ll know more, but obviously not good, “ Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp told the BBC.

Although Liverpool is first in the Champions League in the Champions League 1-0 on the Ajax table and is also at the top of the English league with Everton, his German coach knows that just two stoppers for the rest of the autumn season will not be enough.

“Injuring the other stoppers accelerated Rhys’ integration into the team and he did really well. Players like Jordan Henderson and James Milner will go to him and talk to him to make him feel like he is part of the team. But for everyone at the club, Fabinho’s injury is a shock and we must now resolve the situation around the stoppers as soon as possible, “ Klopp said.

Williams played in the sixth highest English competition for Kidderminster last season, and it is hard to expect that he would play the rest of the autumn by Gomez’s side. That’s why Klopp is considering withdrawing 23-year-old hitchhiker Nathaniel Phillips from Stuttgart.

“We have to think quickly about what we do. If it was one match at the end of the season, we would probably be able to do it in defense. But we will be playing in the league against West Ham in three days. We have very young and inexperienced alternatives. it looks like we have to choose one of them, “ Klopp added, saying that he could not say whether at least the Cameroonian stopper Matip would return to the team after a muscle injury on Saturday.

In addition, Liverpool will have a pair of very tough opponents after Saturday’s duel with West Ham. Next Tuesday, in the Champions League, he will play last quarter’s finalists from Bergamo, and then he will play last year’s winner of the Manchester City competition in the English league.

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