Is Virgil van Dijk fit to start for Liverpool vs Brentford? Injury news latest and FPL update
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will be desperate to have Virgil van Dijk available for their Premier League clash against Brentford this weekend as his side look to bounceback from a controversial midweek defeat.
The Reds lost their 100 percent winning record in this year's Europa League in a 3-2 loss to Ligue 1 side Toulouse, with their bid towards qualification for the knockout stages taking a blow. Aron Donnum gave the hosts the lead in the first half before Thijs Dallinga doubled the score the other side of half time.
An incredible own goal from Cristian Casseres gave Klopp's side hope for a comeback but that was all but snuffed out when Frank Magri fired home just two minutes later. Diogo Jota's fantastic 89th-minute solo run again sparked the hope for another twist which looked to have come in the form of a scrappy goal from youngster Jarell Quansah in the 97th-minute.
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However, VAR controversially ruled out the goal after Alexis Mac Allister was deemed to have handballed it in the build-up, leaving many in the ground and watching at home stunned. Following the match, Klopp admitted that his side had 'deserved to lose', claiming that they weren't decisive enough at the key moments.
"They [Toulouse] won pretty much all the decisive challenges. There were too many situations where we should have won the ball and didn’t, and on top of that we gave the ball away easily at least twice, once for the first goal and the other for a disallowed goal, on the counter-attack our last line was too deep, defending wise was just not good enough.
"When you concede three goals, you need to
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